Word: blankness
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...most striking aspect of the Pucker Safrai Exhibit is a painting by Picasso. "Femme au Fauteuil," painted in 1948, reflects the shell-shocking influence of the Second World War. It depicts a woman in two-dimensional, almost paralyzed, form. Her stare is blank, and she appears so confused that it appears vapid...
...canvas, altering the color scheme and presenting it as avant-garde "high art," Warhol raises questions about why we call certain things art, and how the mainstream of popular culture looks at and effects artistic progress. He raises similar questions about popular attitudes toward money (large $-signs on blank canvases), sensationalism (silk screen paintings of car crashes and electric chairs) and fundamentalist Christianity (a painting that says simply "Repent and Sin No More...
...probably thinking that I should be more cynical. Four million people across the United States receive these letters with their names merged into the blank spaces in bold print. Only a couple of people win each year...
...process of learning how to navigate the campus is similar for police rookies and for first-year students, Kotowski points out. "Except this time, there is a time factor," he says. "Sometimes, amidst the stress, you just draw a blank...
...should aid the former Soviet Union. Stung by Pat Buchanan's isolationist attacks and the common criticism that he has spent too much time on foreign affairs, Bush has virtually ignored the issue. In pleading poverty ("There isn't a lot of money around . . . I don't have a blank check") and refusing to heed Richard Nixon's warnings about chaos and a return to dictatorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bush has offered Clinton a window of opportunity. (If it closes, if Bush jumps out with his own ideas for C.I.S. assistance before Clinton can, the candidate will...