Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Auteuil's performance is heroically blank. He doesn't explain Stephane's emotional numbness, nor does he editorialize against it. He allows his lure for dear Camille to remain a mystery, like so many romantic attractions. But then Beart (Manon in Manon of the Spring, the painter's model in La Belle Noiseuse) is an actress of such extraordinary beauty that any time she falls in movie love she seems like a goddess slumming. Her radiant face is , therapeutic. A glance from her should thaw the frostiest heart...
...Soviet days began, Remnick believes, not with perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to restructure socialism, but with glasnost -- the readiness to face facts -- and Gorbachev's call to fill in the "blank spots" of history. By losing control of the past, the Communist Party began to lose control of its present -- and future. "The return of history," Remnick writes, "was the start of the great reform of the twentieth century and, whether Gorbachev liked it or not, the collapse of the last empire on earth...
...Bill Clinton needs some kind of incentive to simplify the student loan lending process, he should come watch the expression on my face if I open my diploma this afternoon and find a blank piece of paper. For months, I have been getting warnings that Harvard will withhold that sacred certificate unless my loan payments come through in time...
...only Asian-American TV star. While Chung is a decent newsreader, and CBS staff munchkins like her let's-order-a-pizza! perkiness, peers and former colleagues tend to be ungenerous. "Call Connie, ask what really interests her," says a fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard put to describe it. Hmmm . . . I like stories that effect change.") She is not a reliable on- the-air ad libber, either. "Let's say Dan's on a plane when...
...minute later, Rice took a pass from sophomore attacker Dan Nicklas at point-blank range and scored easily...