Word: blindfolds
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...quite so earnest. In the middle of one night each summer, campers will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...
...Should we blindfold ourselves?" Rudenstine asks. "If we're interviewing a Russian of Vietnamese student without a great command of the English language, are we going to say we didn't notice? Are we going to say, 'Sorry, don't tell me anything about the person...
...macho-existential line, enunciated at the end of Legends of the Fall, when a grizzly gets the Brad Pitt character: "It was a good death," the voice-over intones piously. Well, maybe it would be if bears came equipped with anesthesia. But they don't even offer you a blindfold before they start chowing down on the soft parts--generally hips and tummy first, leaving you a few minutes to realize that there are indeed creatures capable of appreciating cellulite...
...court proceeding in the criminal-justice system [JUSTICE, July 17]. It has become a moneymaking venture for thousands of people because of the high-profile defendant. The scales of justice appear to be loaded with a preconceived verdict that he is guilty. This trial makes you wonder about the blindfold that covers the eyes of Lady Justice. We all must remain open minded. L.F. BOONE Los Angeles...
...they were Newton's," says Berman. "You have to treat them very carefully, because there are people who for 25 years have considered them sacred." Even so, there are times he contemplates heresy: on his desk sits a bust of Roddenberry, its eyes and ears covered by a blindfold. "Things are sometimes said in this office that he probably would not like to hear," Berman says...