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...punching his knees and smoking furiously. When Thomas arranges “NOSTRIL” vertically on the board, Washkowitz throws his head back in admiration. “That’s a great word, no suffixes or prefixes,” he says. Regrouping and using a blank tile, he scores big with the one-two punch of “FUSED” and “GREETER.” Thomas anxiously asks for the score. At 297-295, the game is close as the last few tiles are pulled from...
...science. "But this was going on the university's website, so I had to." Learning all of this has made me feel better. So has hearing the most popular joke among the French - one that did make me laugh: An Alsatian went to a telegram office, took out a blank form, and wrote: "Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." The clerk politely told the dog: "There are only nine words here. You could send another 'Woof' for the same price." "But," the dog replied, "that would make no sense at all." Before you say, "Did you hear...
...monumental canvas invites you to stare until your soul merges with its utter blueness. Barnett Newman painted Ulysses in 1952, after the failure of his first two solo shows. But instead of making his art more accessible - his paintings had been criticized as "nearly blank" - he traveled farther into abstraction. Ulysses and its companions, the inkier Day Before One (1951) and the sable Prometheus Bound (1952), strike the viewer with the primeval and inexplicable force of Stonehenge monoliths. These works need to be seen to be believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says...
...Protopsaltis, ATHOC's general manager for transportation. "We let everybody appeal. Most of the court cases and the protests have now been resolved. "It's quite amazing and encouraging," says Gunilla Lindberg, an I.O.C. member who recently visited Athens. "Six months ago, the Olympic Village was just a blank hillside. Now the buildings are up." But much remains to be done. ATHOC has yet to put out tenders for a new boxing facility, much less break ground. A site for the 11 soccer matches to be held in Athens has yet to be found. Aek Stadium, the planned venue, suffered...
...there was any doubt that the audience at the silent auction was predominantly female, the proliferation of signatures beneath the WUSA’s Boston Breakers autographed jersey compared to the blank sheet for the minimal bid of $200 for an autographed Doug Flutie B.C. jersey would have served notice...