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...hairbreadth getaway sequences, but Altman concentrates on portraying the glowering emptiness that daily confronts the robbers. He is especially good at rendering the sort of foggy existential desperation that surrounds his characters and lies at the core of the doomed affair between Bowie and a rather vacant girl called Keechie (Shelley Duvall...
...Burriss Young '55, assistant dean of freshmen, could not find a vacant seat in the Freshman Union at lunchtime one day last week. Not surprisingly, he was not pleased. And his displeasure spurred a previously reluctant Freshman Council to action...
...Japanese rely heavily upon cooperation between nations, Reischauer said, because of their great dependence on trade. To assure that relations between the U.S. and Japan do not deteriorate further, Reischauer recommended that a"communicator" be appointed to fill the currently vacant Japanese ambassadorship...
...cemetery took on a gloomy look in the late afternoon shadows, a group of 30 or 40 campesinos stood with vacant, indifferent faces around the wooden coffin. El padre, without talking to anyone, went directly up to the coffin and began reading prayers in Spanish, the words pronounced in a slow and measured tone. I stood about 10 yards away, on the lip of the freshly-dug grave, feeling as though at any moment I might just tumble in. I had to conjure up all of my will power to keep from bursting out in a wicked laugh at this...
...cardinal's firing was accomplished obliquely. The Pope simply announced that the see of Esztergom was vacant and sent a conciliatory letter to Mindszenty, acknowledging "the crown of thorns that has been placed on your head." The Pope declared that "the memory, both vivid and painful, is deeply etched in our mind, of when you underwent a trial and conviction . . . that drew the attention of the whole world...