Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...molecules and proteins," he says. "You can think of it as the equivalent of landing an airplane on an aircraft carrier, except in this case you're sitting on the drug molecule and landing on the DNA molecule. If you didn't have graphics, it would be like being blind and still trying to land on the aircraft carrier...
...says Richard G. Jaeger, Dartmouth's director of admissions. He says his school is not able to give out all of the aid it would like to, and, like many other colleges, has had to resort to financial aid waiting lists, though it continues to a have a need-blind admissions policy...
...last part of Ishtar returns to the funny, fast pace of the early scenes in New York. There's a great gag having to do with a blind camel and a scene in which Hoffman pretends to speak a Berber dialect is hysterical...
After several neutral slides, Elvis showed what he described as "a naked woman." Yet this woman was not merely naked, she was blind-folded, faceless, dehumanized, reduced to a body. It was the most typical pornography, an invitation to regard women as objects...
...Saturday morning, one of the two weekend days each month that Cubans are required to show up for work. The downtown Havana bus stop was already crowded. A foreign visitor buying a newspaper at a nearby stand offered a dollar bill to the vendor, a wizened and near blind old man. He eagerly accepted it and carefully counted the change in Cuban centavos. Moments later, a policeman, obviously summoned by the crowd, was glaring sternly at the vendor. Dollar transactions are not allowed in Cuba, an onlooker explained. The old man ruefully handed the greenback to the visitor...