Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the last two months, there had been a great "void" in his life. "From three o'clock to 8:30 none of my buddies are around," Martucci said Tuesday. "I have nothing to do." He has become the coach for Quincy House's tackle football team, but the team has no practices and plays only twice a week. So Martucci still has lots of afternoon time he's not used to having...
Harvard has joined 27 other colleges and universities in filing a "friend of the court" brief in a suit to void a Pennsylvania law requiring colleges and universities to report the names of State of Pennsylvania Scholarship students involved in campus disturbances...
...initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...
...cynical wisdom of the world. When she told him she never wanted to get to be like him, he replied: "Nobody wants to, but you will." It is a judgment against which Joan is still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring-into-the-void depressions. In her lean, elliptical prose, she always writes about the thunderous passage of emotion through the brain, of battles lost for love or understanding, of desertion and disillusionment-the realm of psychic pain...
...solution was to start with what he called a "void," a blank circle on a spacious canvas, building color and movement around it. Soon the void developed into a stripe, or as he preferred to call it, a "zip." The zip usually zipped straight down for eight feet or so through an unmodulated expanse of plain color. When the paintings were shown in 1950 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, reactions ranged from negative to outrage. "You're a threat to us all," exclaimed one artist. What followed were perhaps Newman's bleakest years...