Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pursuit of those images, Herzog has made one film in which the actors were hypnotized, another in which all the actors were dwarfs, and a third in which the leading character, an old woman, was both deaf and blind. His best work, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), might serve as a metaphor for the whole German school. Aguirre, a Spanish conquistador played by Klaus Kinski, revolts against the crown and attempts to build a new empire in the jungles of Peru. The film, a kaleidoscope of the fabulous and the bizarre, would be noteworthy even if it stopped after...
Worst of all, this picture of a self-indulgent America, blind to the consequences of its economic management, has been steadily hardening since the late 1960s. Until then, the non-Communist world had lived fairly comfortably with a system of currency exchange rates pegged to the dollar, whose value was fixed in gold (at $35 per oz., a price that seems ridiculous today). That system might not have lasted in any case; even in the early 1960s there were worries about American balance of payments deficits and an outflow of gold from the U.S. But Lyndon Johnson put an intolerable...
...started: without Cacciato, leaderless, without a sense of mission. The man who laughed has slipped away again, and Paul Berlin, left with his sense of obligation, climbs down from the observation tower to go back to the senseless war. Michael Herr relates in Dispatches the story of passing a blind man on a New York street with a friend who was a medic in Vietnam. Around the man's neck was a sign that read, "My Nights Are Darker Than Your Days." Herr and his friend looked at each other, almost guiltily; if you only knew, they thought. Going After...
Meanwhile, the coaches who select All-Ivy hockey team have got to be as blind as some of the dates I've been on. While this was definitely not Harvard's year on the ice by any stretch of the garter belt, leaving the names of George Hughes and John Hynes off the All-League roster is like saying the floor at Father's Six isn't sticky on Thursday nights...
...know how to describe the elephant to a blind man; but how in the world am I going to succeed in describing the texture of snow? How does it sound when it snows, and how does it feel to catch it in one's hands...