Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero is not a simple misogynist, not a fully accredited human being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...
...same type as that used in the killing. The Los Angeles County coroner testified that Senator Kennedy was struck with three bullets, rather than two as originally thought. The third landed in back of the right armpit, near the second. The shots had apparently been fired at point-blank range, at least one of them only two or three inches from the victim...
...case his readers have corrections or additions to offer, Mader has included a blank page that can be torn out and mailed to an East Berlin post office. But one page will hardly suffice...
...Aleksei Nikolaevich (son of Nikolai). The absence of such a patronymic exposes a child to humiliation in what remains essentially a prudish society. The illegitimate child is usually given his mother's last name, but sometimes the mother refuses to register him rather than let the infamous "blank space" for the father's name haunt the child all his life...
...overwrought National Guardsman sent word of shots being fired from the area of the motel with its largely Negro clientele. The police dispatcher relayed the message: "Army under heavy fire." Actually, only a few shots had been heard, and Negro witnesses later claimed that these had come from a blank-cartridge pistol; no gun of any kind was ever found at the motel...