Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties to choose from, Italy's general elections last week seemed to offer something for every political shopper. The candidates represented all political brands from neo-Fascism to Communism. Yet, obliged by law to go to the polls, 1,000,000 Italians rejected the lot and cast blank ballots-the highest no-to-everybody vote ever registered in Italy. Amid all the statistics to come out of the election, this was the most easily understood, and perhaps the most significant...
...visit. She was a special guest of North Viet Nam, and it shows. Her report reads like the journal of a house guest in the home of an extremely touchy host: "I felt that it would be somehow impolite to express my curiosity in the form of a point-blank question; there are many questions one does not want to ask in Hanoi...
...material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit. "I'd rather draw him with a blank face," says Oliphant. "I'd hate four years with him; so would every cartoonist...
Typecast as a blank-faced ingenue in her early films, Deneuve is well on her way to becoming a serious star; besides making Belle de Jour, which won the grand prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, she was the schizophrenic in Roman Polanski's Repulsion, played an updated version of Manon Lescaut called Manon 70, and has just finished...
...months ago, he smiled often, and his conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table, he took notes as unobtrusively as possible, looking down only when he somehow knew it was time to turn to a blank sheet. If this was an effort to avoid distracting me, it was counter-productive. I spent the better part of dinner watching him write in his book...