Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, it could not have taken a blind person to notice the many homeless people leaning against the walls of Adams House, also observing the spectacle. Undoubtedly, they did not experience the same feeling of elation at the arrival of this wealthy...
ODDLY, for me the words "love" and "parents" together conjure up visions of blind Greek kings, not filial affection. And I don't think I'm the only one with these reservations...
...aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind eye to poaching. Revenues from tourism and safaris have yet to improve the lot of the African people enough to win them over to wildlife management...
...concluding sequence of this thematically unified but somewhat bifurcated movie -- is through Ben, another rabbi (Sam Waterston), who is one of Cliff's brothers-in-law. The rabbi is Judah's patient, and his eye trouble is quite literal; by the end of the movie he has gone blind. But this blindness is also symbolic. By visiting this affliction on the only character in his movie who has remained close to God, Allen is suggesting that if the Deity himself is not dead, then he must be suffering from severely impaired vision...
...improve their game," Kramer recalls. Word about Braden's magic touch spread; soon people were signing up as much as two years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills Estates, too, that he trained Tracy Austin and other young proteges...