Image caption Casey Affleck: "I didn't say anything [political] because my head was completely blank" "Man, I wish I had something bigger and more meaningful to say," best actor winner Casey Affleck said from the podium.
Just look outside and fill in the blank: "Man, it sure is ____ today" (examples: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy, cold, warm, nice -- choose the one that best matches what you see(make sure you are looking outside)).
I was discussing this with relatives from the Midwest as we hiked across the Brooklyn Bridge Monday night, the great stone arches and the harp-like suspension cables so beautiful in the floodlights, the skyscrapers of Wall Street huddled together, yearning to breathe free, and the impassivity of passersby, the stone-faced women, the blank men.
Blank-Man?" The US director might have a point when it comes to Peyton Reed's film, which scored the lowest box office of any Marvel film since 2011's middling Captain America: The First Avenger, and for me remains the weakest movie in the Disney-owned studio's recent canon.
Following in part the economist Thomas Sowell, he distinguishes between a leftist utopian vision of human nature (the mind is a blank slate, man is a Noble Savage, traditional institutions are the problem) and the tragic vision preferred by the right (man is the problem; family, creed and Adam Smith's Invisible Hand are the solutions).
Creativity Alliance have been hanging their flag in the town and putting stickers onto bus stops, including one particularly delightful effort, which is of a white, blank-faced man, putting a razor-blade to his closed eye with the caption, "Sometimes opening your eyes might be the most painful thing you have to do".
There's no pull-down menu: the format is fill in the blank, every man for himself.
The film, also showing at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, not only creates a vivid, fond portrait of the eccentric Mr. Blank (a man who seems to love chickens more than people), but also provides a profound meditation on the pros and cons of rugged individualism.
When Boyle first tried to sell the idea of 127 Hours to a studio he was met with blank faces – "man spends five days trapped alone in a canyon before he finds a way out" – but he could see straight away the possibilities.
General Area of the Lemm Ranch Chinese Cabin On March 14 , 1877 a group of white men shot six Chinese men at point-blank range in a cabin at Lemm Ranch, just outside of Chico.
"Gentlemen, these are blanks," the man tells them.
