Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen Christina; audiences saw complex emotions playing across her features while she was thinking, she said, of "nothing at all." This show is unlikely to lure back the lapsed, let alone convert the condemned. The faithful can impose their own meaning on Lamour's blank canvas...
...fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side and 12 were blank on the comment side. Of the 12 commenting I would say that four were constructive ("his somewhat caustic manner sometimes hides his concern and can be disconcerting"), two were simply laudatory ("Adam was great!") and two were just plain rude ("leads idiotic...
...real life, Eastwood knows how to play the self-deprecating good guy. Just listen to him explain why they wanted him to sign blank slips of paper rather than personalized greetings to Uncle Cappy in Port Clyde. "It's a business," he says. "They trade them." He pauses, grins, then adds, "You get one Steve McQueen for four of mine...
...studying -- and speaking -- the language, though learning it is a real oy (pain). To his amazement, Okrand has been accosted by ardent students and subjected to barrages of fluent Klingon. Yampell, who once perpetrated such a barrage, was disappointed to find that the idiom's inventor responded with a blank stare. "He doesn't really speak the language, although he does pronounce it much better than I do." Despite his lack of fluency, Okrand is revered by students of the warrior tongue. "When it comes to Klingon," says one disciple, "anything Marc Okrand writes is the word...
...where he kowtows to white colleagues and a neo-nazi student body as a means of courting a tenured appointment in the Humanities department. When the news breaks that the coveted position has been granted to radical feminist April Jokujoku, Puttbutt reconsiders his politics, digging out paraphernalia from his Blank Panther days at the Air Force Academy. Puttbutt's shift in perspective coincides with the buying out of Jack London College by Japanese investors who rewrite the cirriculum and appoint Puttbutt's Japanese tutor as the school's new president...