Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away at a clogged pipe. "If this damned sink gets stopped...
...they fluoresce with a bright flash that makes the copy momentarily illegible. After copies of a document had been distributed to all those authorized to see it, the original and the copies could be sprayed with the dyes so that attempts to make additional, unauthorized copies would produce only blank paper...
What are you doing next year. The question is elided into five syllables. Grad school was the only answer; if not part of the triple crown (medicine-business-law), then at least time out, perhaps in England, to study set-design. After that, blank. Steven's brother was a lawyer, on the West Coast, forever regretting wasting his life in professional training...
...solved it smoothly. Badlands is narrated by Holly in a swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented it to the yardman...
...take. The first question was 'What is up?', can you believe it, what is up! What is up!" At this point Kimberly broke into a wildfire cackle that became a screech. She continued, "Well, I sat there for three hours and couldn't do it. So I turn this blank paper and they let me sit there for three more hours and I still can't do it. So they tell me to come back in a week and so I come back and sit in this empty classroom with the doors locked for six straight hours staring at that...