Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot is make-believe from the pasteboard jungle of Hollywood...
Thinking less feverishly over the following months, Communist Schaff singled out what he decided was the reason for this philosophical blind spot and did his best to indicate the cure. Communism historically has no time or place for the individual because Marx saw society as the solvent for all individual problems. Private ethical dilemmas were submerged, first because the revolution had no time for such niceties, later because they were tainted by association with "idealistic" ideologies. But Philosopher Schaff recognizes that "as long as people die, suffer, lose their loved ones, just so long will questions about the meaning...
...more than 120 major forest fires in California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...another narrative device, the blind Captain Cat (Nick Carrera) has exactly that power; Alexander Macmillan works a little simple magic with the Reverend Eli Jenkins sunrise and sunset poems; and Newell Flather as Nogood Boyo, Dai Bread, Utah Watkins, and Sinbad is consistently, wonderfully funny...
...discount houses at profit-breaking prices. As the company grew, he kept it from becoming top-heavy with bosses (a ten-year sales increase of 294% increased the number of top executives from only five to ten). In research, says Freimann, "the big thing is to avoid blind alleys...