Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months of low ratings and C-list guests, blames The Tonight Show for strong-arm booking tactics. David Letterman, NBC's later- night wit who couldn't conceal his chagrin at being snubbed for Johnny Carson's job, now has other networks and syndicators strewing his restless passage with blank checks. NBC has already retained Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey as Letterman's potential replacement...
Other commercials encountered fewer problems but employ equally memorable imagery to underscore the theme. One dramatizes our Nov. 11, 1991, cover story on privacy by showing a small round hole being sawed from the other side of a blank wall, and then an eye appearing in the hole. Another, keyed to our coverage of the Los Angeles riots, shows a touching sequence of photo portraits, each of which ignites and burns as the narrator quotes Rodney King: "Can we all get along...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers is provide you with "poster gum," Which is basically useless. Fine other ways to hang pictures, or get used to the minimalism of blank walls...
...Leonardo da Vinci advised the painter to take inspiration from random pattern, like the mottled stains on an old wall; Guercino seems to have believed this too. One of the drawings in the show, Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot clusters is converted into the animal face of a creature with haglike breasts that surges out of a pool to frighten the bathing nymphs...
Munson received a 20 percent response to the questionnaire he mailed out to classmates last year. The questionnaire consists of 20 items, a blank answer form and a reply envelope. Members of the class of 1942 were asked to write about important events that had affected their lives...