Word: blindfolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this on purpose and it doesn't really matter since I would have gaffed just as badly. To the Inquisitor's credit, he helped me all the way through his queries with obvious hints, but by then I was reeling, feeling they had tied the blindfold and then asked me what color clothes they were wearing...
...next act, the emotional balance shifts completely. Marjorie may be viewed either as an avenging angel or a paranoid witch. She has trussed up Raul in the fireplace and pinned a white blindfold around his head. She has clamped the head of a brass bedstead in front so that the fireplace resembles a prisoner's cell or an animal's cage. She pokes Raul in the stomach and groin with a broomstick, pours ammonia on him pretending it is gasoline, and peppers him with matches, threatening to burn him to death...
...Kemp tax act, joked that he had invited Stockman to a Thanksgiving dinner at which the menu would include "Trojan horse pâté, Château Hemlock '81, trickle-down consommé and foot-in-mouth filet." After dinner, said Roth, Stockman would be "offered a blindfold and a cigarette." Actually, Roth was furious at Stockman's remarks about supply-side economics, saying, "I'm outraged...
...trip to Baltimore's Harborplace is no more rewarding than or different from a trip to Santa Monica Place or the Mall in Columbia, Md. Blindfold a stranger and take him into any of these areas, and he will not be able to tell the difference. They sell the same products from the same stores. Baltimore and other cities replanned in this way cannot exist forever on weekend sales of Day-Glo plastic planters and kites...
Islamic guards led the dozen girls to the courtyard of Evin Prison in Tehran. The oldest was clad in a flowing black chador, the traditional Muslim veil. The others wore dark head scarves. As the guards began to blindfold them, the girls started chanting, "Death to fascism! Death to Khomeini...