Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other films in The Boston Center for the Arts series of which Bland's film is a part include Dizzie Gillespie, a 1959 Les Blank production, and John Jeremy's Jazz Is Our Religion. Jeremy's 1970 film supports Bland's thesis that even when a black musician plays from his roots he blows his soul "through a white man's machine." But the work is most notable for some fine stills of the conditions and communities that breed jazz as well as a scattering of poetic jazz talk by Langston Hughes...
...punishing workout, it is not the hot shower or whirlpool bath that Joe likes to ease into but a nice, deep meditative trance. He murmurs a secret word over and over again until the repetition, just like a massive tackle, blocks out his consciousness and leaves his mind refreshingly blank...
...outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing ... On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. - Mao Tse-tung...
...seriously argue that the Chinese, with almost three milleniums of history behind them, were ever truly "blank." Yet in the 25 years since Mao and his 2 million-member Communist Party swept to power after a 22-year civil war, he has come a long way toward creating a new China. Despite the convulsions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, China has transformed itself more radically and more quickly than any other country in history. From what many Westerners saw as a devastated, underdeveloped satellite of the Soviet Union, China has remade itself into a largely self...
...radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot had settled there in a small artery, leaving an area of dead tissue where no blood is circulated to take up oxygen. Then the doctors ran a second test to determine whether Nixon's respiratory passages were open...