Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flame in the red clay soil around him. With one quick twist, a woman fluffs her white veil into swaddling and so conjures up a baby in arms. Horns blare as a crowd of celebrants, resplendent in red, holds aloft a richly caparisoned tent for the wedding of a blind king. A master of military arts orders a disciple to cut off his right thumb and thereby lose his strength and skill. "It is not cruelty," the teacher explains. "It is foresight...
...power, so that they can stay there," he gestures toward the hill where the wealthy live amid satellite dishes and swimming pools, "and we can stay here." He sweeps his hand across the tableau that poverty has painted: alleys filled with refuse, a dwarf and a blind man begging together and a troupe of half-naked children who parade by, playing their own brand of music on a series of improbable homemade instruments. Aristide's constituents...
Leading a blind horse...
...been taking risks since he was born, in the town of Fontana Liri, near Rome, to a carpenter who eventually went blind and a housewife who eventually went deaf. ("They were like a comic couple," he notes.) When the German army occupied Italy, Marcello was sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe...
...1970s there was widespread resentment as Watergate culprits cashed in with books -- among them, John Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states...