Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Paul Hill won't serve the two life terms to which he was sentenced just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge said...
...clearly that of Tennessee Williams. A large photograph of the playwright looms over the set that confronts the arriving audience. Cigarette holder in hand, he contemplates a written page. After the houselights dim, a young man comes on stage and begins to type. The projection changes to a blank piece of paper. The young man lights a cigarette, then addresses the audience, his wry drawl and courtliness gently recalling Williams himself...
...finally, Tripp Tracy never gave up, playing perhaps the best he has all season after Colgate's third goal. He held the fort for the final eight minutes of regulation and stoned the Red Raiders five times in overtime, four from point-blank range...
...that it matters too much, since new commissions are flooding in. "I don't write music to grab a large audience, though I'm pleased that I do," the composer says. "But success doesn't exactly help you confront that terrible blank page. When I sit down to write a piece of music, it's still the same old Michael Nyman, excited and terrified at the same time." His listeners are happy to go along for the ride...
...fact, it was Eales that gave Brown the game's first golden scoring opportunity--Albers had to come up with a point-blank save less than five minutes in to keep the Bears off the scoreboard...