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...next few seconds, Moore blocked the junior forward's first point blank blast, his try at the rebound, and then muffled a shot by Ayrault on the second deflection, forcing the booters into their fourth overtime this season...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Booters, Penn Play To Scoreless Tie | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...plan that would have set aside half of the state's surplus revenues for water projects was defeated 57.4% to 42.5%, despite the backing of powerful Texas politicians. Opponents, including the League of Women Voters, teachers' groups and environmentalists, charged that the measure amounted to a blank check and circumvented normal budgetary processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Much of a Pattern Either | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Texas businessman was delighted when an attractive woman accepted his invitation for a nightcap in his Manhattan hotel room. But after a couple of drinks, he went blank. When he did not show up for a morning business meeting, his colleagues grew worried. They went to his room and found the Texan wild-eyed, heart pounding and his mouth dry as cotton. He was also hallucinating about little creatures that were trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...with François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. "Yes, that's the way these things often go," one says, thinking back over the film in those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imprisonment | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Sarah. The acting is awesome, the script is terrific, the structure is brilliant, the scenery is beautiful and you'll leave the theater feeling miserable. By the way, this film, like the book, has a happy ending and a sad ending, take your pick. This is the One-Blank-Cartridge-In-The-Firing-Squad's-Guns School of Movie Making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Streep Street | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

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