Word: void
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Government Kenneth A. Shepsle, chair of the department, said Rosen's appointment fills a void in the department...
...seeking not only to revive the urban action picture but to make a subtler point about cinematic violence: "Throughout the movie, he gives us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen, or an empty modern soul, waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...
Forbes said he decided to enter the presidential race in order to fill the void left when former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided not to run for president...
...what of the hall itself? The administration has already concluded that it is useless. The administration, however, lacks foresight. The time may come when just such a space is needed. The lack of gathering spaces at Harvard will leave a great void in University life. The Great Hall, however, could easily assume some of the functions which house dining halls once had. The hall could be used as a multi-functional center. Its location and size are obviously ideal. Meetings, receptions, speeches, dancers, exhibitions and small concerts and recitals, could be held in it. The Union Hall would thus continue...
...complete it they did, in a series of televised space walks that riveted the nation's attention in December 1993. Floating on the verge of a black void, the crew of the shuttle Endeavour checked off one item after another on their impossible list until, in what Bahcall calls a display of "superhuman intelligence and ability," they were done. NASA's badly battered reputation was on the line, but within days the report came in: the images were excellent. "It was hard to believe," Bahcall remembers. "Each instrument worked exactly as it was designed...