Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes off after doctors and their gullible patients with a Shavian vengeance. But Molière's prey is not his purpose. Like all masters of high comedy, he essentially diagnoses man's incurable diseases-vanity, pretension and folly. The bell-capped revelers of the N.R.T. are blind to this underlying gravity...
Speaking to the H.R Young Republicans, Findley, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that "our present policy toward China has become blind and unrealistic -- in fact, ostrich-like" and urged better communication with the Chinese...
...merely "she" and "he." Then "she" suddenly awakens to the universe outside her door. Alongside the development lives a colony of bedraggled ragpickers who subsist on the refuse of their privileged neighbors. One of them "she" recognizes as her husband's college classmate. "She" befriends him and his blind ward, a little girl whose wild, wandering eyes make her a creature of special desperation. Embarrassed by the fall of his onetime classmate, "he" crushes the few hesitant attempts of the ragpicker and his wife to create a friendship...
...fragile as haiku, She and He lacks the substance of genuine tragedy, but Director Susumu Hani, a onetime documentary film maker, has given the picture a sense of on-location authenticity that transcends its simplistic symbolism. His casting, an amalgam of amateur and professional actors, is flawless. The blind girl literally lives her role; she is truly blind. The ragpicker (Sachiko Hidari), a painter who never acted before, is as narrow as a rice stalk, so emaciated that he sometimes seems to have two profiles in search of a face. But Hidari radiates a beggar's joie de vivre...
...advisor to the closed corporation, is the official party priestess. She is a trouble-shooter, spending time in cities where the sales are down and managing institutes which open in big important cities for the first few weeks. It is her duty to instill in students a blind unquestioning faith in the party dogma. When a student told Mrs. Wood during the first lesson that she doubted she would ever read very fast, Mrs. Wood admonished her with "young lady, if there is any doubt in your mind about ultimate success, I promise you that you will fail. You must...