Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind, incurably foolish, a man eventually so scoured by suffering that his death is like a saint's birth. The portrayal has an all-involving humanity from which an audience cannot withhold some of its deepest and most turbulent emotions...
...newest cigarette commercials on TV, but it looks as old as the George Washington Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide...
...coal mines," Oravetz said. "My old man couldn't play ball, so he was a coal miner all his life. Now he's blind from working in those mines. That's why you don't catch me bitching too much about not making the big leagues. Hell, I'm lucky...
...reads: "Events have always proved these 'intellectuals' not only wrong, but blind and ignorant tools of prejudice. They still masquerade about in Universities brandishing intellectualism which they equate with Ph.D. but do not prove by thinking properly...
...Heart is a Lonely Hunter--Very weighty stuff, with the sensitive Alan Arkin as a sensitive young man who happens to be blind. At the ASTOR, Tremont St. near Boylston...