Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little problem about Agnese. "Tumor?" asks the cousin. "Honor," growls Don Vincenzo. He sends his only son Antonio to murder the seducer, assured that the boy's punishment will be no more than three to seven years in prison, provided he can prove that he killed "in a blind rage...
Doffing his cowboy hat to the initial applause he proceeded to sing the best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...
Cocteau, shortly after he met Sachs, made what was perhaps the kindest judgment of him. He was, he said, "a deep-sea fish, luminous but blind...
...many ways, the traditional U.S. courtroom seems only too well designed for blind justice. Jutting into the room like an oversize Murphy bed, the judge's bench often obstructs the view of jury members so much that they cannot see exhibits that lawyers show the judge. Equally bad, the jury has only a side view of the witness stand and cannot see the fullface expressions of witnesses under questioning. The judge is even worse off: only by craning his neck can he see anything but the back of a witness' head, and he must swivel a full...
...Wave in a Bad Sea." The mob's fury turned to blind panic. "A horrible noise, like the crashing of mountains, went through us," said a 16-year-old student. A few men stood firm, shouting, "Calma, calma." They were swept aside and trampled in the stampede for the exits. A woman knelt to pray with a baby in her arms; both were stomped to death. Recalled Leonardo Cevallos, 37, a fisherman who brought his whole family to the big game: "The people came at us like a wave in a bad sea. My wife and my five children...