Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, he is also an obsessed football coach. So intent upon proving to the Woody Hayeses, Johnny Majorses and Bear Bryants of the football world that his multiflex is a great offense, Restic appears blind to the fact that perhaps Harvard should not have used that particular alignment this year. And if Restic honestly believed, after the loss of Tim Davenport in the Columbia game, that he should have continued with the multi-flex, I would contend that he does not fully understand his own creation...
Medenica, a former driver, knows all too well about what that one little mistake can mean. On Labor Day, 1976, while in third place in New England Formula Ford standings, Medenica crashed in a practice session at Lime Rock, plowing into another car that had spun out into a blind spot over a rise. Medenica's fragile car collapsed around his legs, fracturing both ankles. It was five months before he could walk without rutches, and he may still need another operation to regain full use in his right foot...
George Levanter never hesitates before accepting a "blind date." As the hero of Jerzy Kosinski's latest novel, Blind Date, he would violate the author's entire notion of how life should be lived if he were...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
Levanter's life of "blind dates" brings him into contact with a Russian actress, famous scientists, business tycoons, and small-town nymphomaniacs, each of whom occupies as fleeting a part in the novel as they do in Levanter's life...