Word: blanks
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Many artists and collectors in the '80s were also bored with the astringent minimalism of the prior decade. All those no-nonsense Donald Judd boxes--it was only a matter of time before a new generation came along to scribble on blank slates. That was how it felt when Basquiat's bright, hectic canvases started appearing. In Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, an '82 picture in the Brooklyn show, he applied broad washes of pigment in a way that suggests a cross between Willem de Kooning's surfs of color and any kid's finger paintings...
...alert compliance officers whenever retail sonographers set up shop in their community. Since then, a few states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some of his colleagues will do the same with DVDs. "But we do it only when there is a medical indication to do the ultrasound," he emphasizes. And patients eager to have...
...right up to the door. Weise climbed out of the car and fired two shotgun blasts into the air. Grant started to run away from the door, herding students as she went. Brun, unarmed, walked toward Weise. The security guard was shot with the 12-gauge shotgun at point-blank range. Weise walked on, firing down the hallways. And then, in what seems to have been a random decision, Weise blasted the glass panel of Rogers' study hall to find more targets and seal his fate...
Early in the first period, she got within point-blank range of St. Lawrence goalie Jess Moffat firing two shots on net before drawing a penalty from Saints’ defenseman Laurie Ross at 5:27. Just over a minute later, Corriero converted on the ensuing power play to give Harvard its first goal of the game at 6:29 in the third period...
Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke disputed the findings of various studies used to support arguments for innate gender differences in cognition. She directed particularly vehement criticisms at Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book The Blank Slate formed the basis for some of Summers’ remarks about “intrinsic aptitude...