Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobody knows." In a later interview with TIME, he elaborated, saying, "There's less ambiguity here than meets the eye. But we don't want either side to rock the boat. We don't want Taiwan to declare independence, which would be the case if we gave it a blank check, and we don't want the Chinese to use aggressive tactics, which would be the case if we gave them a blank check. I told the Chinese that Americans are unpredictable: even if we said we wouldn't defend Taiwan, the U.S. Congress and the American public might change...
Then and there, McDougal filled out a blank stock-transfer certificate and told Susan to take it over to Hillary so she could review and sign it. That afternoon, Susan dropped in at the Rose firm. She was in buoyant spirits, relieved that she and her husband could stop worrying about the Clintons. She sat down across from Hillary at her desk, thinking how she might brighten up the office if it was hers, as Hillary read the proposed transfer of ownership. "What is this?" Hillary demanded, her tone cold. Susan's smile froze...
...unique world and to be recognized for this grand achievement. The film both pants for approval and demands to be approached in awe. Glowing with boyish brazenness, Kane is an inspiration to all who see it, especially filmmakers. Here, it says, is what you can do with youth, a blank check and a little genius. A big genius, that is. The first words on the screen herald him with astounding bravado: "A Mercury production by Orson Welles...
...ERASURE ON A NEAR IMPOSSIBLE SCALE. FIRST the sky went blank, and then the ground. Then, in most places, your front steps disappeared, then your car; and finally, your schedule for the next 48 hours. How big was the snowstorm that hit the Eastern states early last week? So big that in each new place it bulldozed over, it toppled a different historical precedent. In New York City they compared it to the great storm of 1947. In Boston it was the blizzard of 1978. In Raleigh, North Carolina, the snow of 1989. That won't happen next time. Whenever...
ICICLES--SIX FEET LONG, AND AT THEIR TIPS, as bright and sharp as needles--hang from the eaves: wild ice stalactites, dragon's teeth. I peer through them to see the world transformed to abstract whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that...