Word: voided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero, Danny, is a typically good-looking, suburban jock. His parents drive a Volvo, his golden retriever goes to doggy school, and his kid brother watches video-cassettes all day. Yet there's a void in Danny's life. At some point in his golden youth, something snaps--he trades in his already paved road to success for possessionless servitude in a cult. Michael O'Keefe--the blue-eyed actor last seen as the disturbed son in The Great Santini--does a fine job portraying the troubled Danny. Yet his precarious insecurity, although true to life, becomes unconvincing...
...realism could have matured only in the past 25 years A.P.-After Pollock. His paintings are saturated with the ideas about surface and space that abstract paintings put into currency in America. They have less to do with locating a set of objects in the illusion of a void than with creating a continuous pelt of shapes that fills the surface from edge to edge, top to bottom. With 19th century landscapists like Bierstadt or Corot, one is softly inducted into the illusion. Welliver points out, 'You can really just enter into it and leave. With mine, there...
Whoever the killers were, they left a political void that will not easily be filled. A few possible candidates were mentioned. One was Camille Chamoun, 82, who served as President from 1952 to 1958 and in the end had to seek the help of the U.S. Marines to keep the country from disintegrating. Another was Raymond Eddé, 69, a former presidential aspirant living in Paris. But Bashir's brother Amin has become the front runner simply by announcing his candidacy...
...Manville finally sued 27 of its carriers in state court in San Francisco. As part of their defense, some of the firms claimed that Manville was aware of the dangers of asbestos as far back as the 1930s and did not inform them, thus making the policies void. That case has not yet been settled...
...Yank the Crank" committee was formed. T shirts displaying that motto went on sale in Brad Hooper's village store. There were town meetings and more town meetings. Lawyers were hired, and briefs got filed with the public utilities commission to prevent the conversion to dial, and even void the sale...