Word: blanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been called a window into the American psyche. Or you might say he's a mirror - what you see depends on who you are and where you stand. Obama puts it this way: "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." But those metaphors all suggest that he is some sort of passive instrument, when in fact his elusive quality is an active part of his personality. It's how you square the fact that Obama once wrote the most intimate memoir ever published by a future nominee yet still...
Writers often speak of the courage it takes to face the blank page. Solzhenitsyn's courage was of a completely different order. Equally strong was his belief that the communist system he had so thoroughly damned in his work would collapse in his lifetime, allowing him to return home...
...Give it a try, you will love it. Don't follow rules, make them!" the instructions on the new Wordscraper game slyly exhort. Once a user installs the application (which, coincidentally, looks like a big, blank Scrabble board), he can create his own word game by adding special "double word" and "triple letter" tiles in any configuration he chooses. If a user happens to create a board that's identical to the original Scrabble and saves that setting - a feat that takes less than two minutes - he can elect to save the template and reuse it over and over again...
...distinguished himself in Washington. His most recent and most impressive such coup was the quick passage of a massive housing bill in late July over the objections of many Republican lawmakers and even some White House aides. The legislation gave Paulson something unprecedented and very expansive: a blank check from Congress that he and whoever succeeds him at Treasury can use until the end of 2009 to bail out or take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled government-created firms that at the moment are funding the vast majority of mortgage loans being made...
...Liam Neeson sits on a bed on the left side of the stage; on the right side is a blank wall on which his face is projected in closeup, as a woman's voice softly, insistently works its way into his head. "Anyone living love you now, Joe? Anyone living sorry for you now? That slut that comes on Saturday, you pay her, don't you? Penny a hoist, tuppence as long as you like." Once another woman did love him, and he shrugged her off, and she tried killing herself several ways, until one worked. And Neeson stares ahead...