Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from several side streets, the attacking columns began pouring point-blank fire-from tanks, cannons, machine guns and rifles-at the protective walls. Back came a murderous counterfire, everything Diem's defenders had left. First one Diem tank caught fire and exploded in a tower of smoke and flame. Then another was knocked out of action. Two of the rebels' tanks were also destroyed...
...Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...
...image of Bob Hope has disappeared. Hope has always insisted that the brittle, wisecracking, naive, play-it-loose, quick-lipped, harmlessly leering joker-the fellow who has been delivering all those after-dinner gags all these years-is the real Bob Hope. The audience before him is a blank wall, against which Hope tosses jokes that bounce and glitter for a second, then are forgotten. He has never wanted to go deeper, into his dience or into himself, and he hasn...
...brief but harrowingly Hogarthian: and Squire Western's hunt explains more powerfully than words could possibly explain the senselessness and horror of blood sport. Mile after mile the chase goes on: the running deer all terror and loveliness, the men and the dogs all grinning the same blank, murderous, animal grin. Then all at once the deer collapses. Blood in their eyes, the men and the dogs fall upon it together. They snarl and they slaver, they tear at its throat. Smeared scarlet, Squire Western screams, and out of the melee of blood and teeth he lifts in triumph...
Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...