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What Erik achieved is hard for a sighted person to comprehend. What do we compare it with? How do we relate to it? Do we put on a blindfold and go hiking? That's silly, Erik maintains, because when a sighted person loses his vision, he is terrified and disoriented. And Erik is clearly neither of those things. Perhaps the point is really that there is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits...
...What Erik achieved is hard for a sighted person to comprehend. What do we compare it with? How do we relate to it? Do we put on a blindfold and go hiking? That's silly, Erik maintains, because when a sighted person loses his vision, he is terrified and disoriented. And Erik is clearly neither of those things. Perhaps the point is really that there is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits...
...wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read the following with a scholar's acuity. Then take a list of the nominees, available from the Academy's useful website, www.oscar.com. Tack the list on a wall, blindfold yourself and start throwing darts...
...chopper neared the Trade Center, agents removed Yousef's blindfold. "See?" said one. "It's still standing." Yousef squinted at the high-rise. "Next time, if I have more money," he finally said, "I'll knock it down...
Cochran insisted that there is not only "a peephole in the blindfold of lady justice," but that discrepancies in the law are heavily related to issues of race and class...