Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connie, the girl seduced by the Treat Williams character in Smooth Talk, is supposed to be physical, a fretful, yearning high school sophomore whose lush, gawky body has outgrown the controls of fear and reason. In Mask, Dern was equally convincing as a very different type, the shy, innocent blind girl...
...Molly's white BMW jackrabbits through the midday traffic as she drives from home to drop by her dad's luncheonette in Van Nuys. Bob's Snack Bar: "Where the Elite Meet to Eat." Ringwald, a burly, gray-bearded man, has been blind since he was ten; he took over the restaurant last year under a Government program to teach retail-management skills to the handicapped. Most days he is up at 5 and works in the shop until late afternoon. When Molly greets him, he stage-whispers, "I can't have you coming in like this. All my customers...
...anti-viral drugs are on the cutting edge of Hirsch and Groopman's research. They are azidothymidine (AZT), a synthetic drug that was originally designed to combat cancer, and alpha interferon, a relatively new, genetically-engineered substance. Hirsch has just concluded a two-year placebo-controlled, double-blind study of 24 AIDS and ARC patients treated with the interferon, whose results will be revealed in June. In addition, both Hirsch and Groopman are participating in a nation-wide study of AZT in AIDS and ARC patients. Hirsch has already enrolled more than 100 patients, while Groopman is in the process...
...doorstep of Marvel Comics in New York in 1979, a twenty-one-year-old kid carrying nothing but his portfolio and a vague smell of the Vermont woods. He was put to work drawing Daredevil, a relatively minor Marvel book chronicling the glitzy adventures of a blind superhero...
Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...