"I feel he was guiding me, which is the smartest way, because when you push somebody to do something they don't know or they have never experienced, they kind of put a block on it and reject it.
The family was quite categoric that he mustn't know what was going on and it was insulting his intelligence not discussing it, but the family kind of put a block on it and as they were able to do that because of the language, it was a problem (Physicians, G4).
"It was kind of a building block for me," Navarro says of the fluorescent piece, an exercise in materials and formalism.
I've got some kind of a mental block about his name, probably because we were cruel to the poor fellow in a way that only 30 13-year-olds can be: ritualistically, gleefully, unstintingly, acting with the unfettered sadism of many concentration camp guards with but a single inmate".
If anything, it was a kind of--block.
"The Bourne Identity," adapted by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron from a 1980 novel by Robert Ludlum, has tons of up-to-date surveillance equipment, and it features an unfamiliar Filipino martial art called kali, a kind of stuttered karate (block, block, slash, kick).
PLANNER, according to Minsky, consists largely of suggestions of the kind "If a block is to be put on something, then make sure there is room on the something for the block to fit".
Learn the three kinds of blocks: Hard block, parry, and beat.
Just hours after his untimely passing at 57, the internet was flooded with initial shock and dismay, moving remembrances and tributes, hilariously left-field anecdotes, archival videos (his 1983 performance with James Brown and Michael Jackson is particularly spellbinding), and marathons of all kinds, from a block of MTV music videos to a nine-hour playlist on Minnesota Public Radio.
They begin appearing in the afternoon, and by dusk the stretch of water where the entrances to Cold Spring Harbor and Oyster Bay meet is a welter of anchored sailboats, cruisers, yachts, and outboards, many of them lashed together, five or six wide, in a kind of floating block party known as a tie-up.
