Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways. The omiai, or arranged marriage, still accounts for 60% of the country's matches. While these pairings formerly were taken care of by the couples' relatives, modern arrangements are often no more than a recommendation from a friend, an exchange of pictures or a carefully blueprinted blind date. Indeed, many young people, with the agreement of their families, make their specific desires (looks, personal history, job, salary, hobbies) known to one of 500 computerized omiai arrangement centers. Says one marriage counsellor, Yasukatsu Aoki: "If a couple do not like each other, they can refuse through our office...
...ending." Lyons contends, along with some spokesmen for major U.S. utilities, that waiting for more research is not "going to make that much difference." Because the acid-rain problem involves so many different disciplines and so much poorly understood data, he says, "we're like a lot of blind men grabbing at an elephant...
...Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will echo that...
...hardly anything unfootnoted. The book has a five-page "Note on Sources" (largely accounts of how he traced various long-forgotten Johnson friends), a 34-page index and 62 absorbing pages of footnotes. In one, a page long, Caro documents an allegation that Johnson secretly controlled the "blind trust" he established to manage his financial holdings after he assumed the presidency in 1963. The citation also promises more on that subject "in the later volumes...
...Politburo colleagues had agreed with Amin that Amin would arrange for Taraki to step down as President on his return to Kabul. Amin carried out the agreement in spirit, if not to the letter: Taraki stepped straight from the presidency to his grave. Moscow was willing to turn a blind eye to that. It was only weeks, however, before the smooth-talking Amin made the KGB argument seem correct. Amin did not honor specific promises made to the Soviet Union, he complained about the KGB's activities in Afghanistan, and he wanted Soviet officials who had had the "effrontery...