Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what military planners consider the new high ground of space. Already, the Soviets are believed to have developed a killer satellite that can disable or destroy other satellites by maneuvering close to them and exploding. They are also known to be experimenting with satellite-borne lasers that could blind a missile or satellite...
...tough to be called a libber, even if you took pride in the politics, and those at first were mean. They were the politics of long frustration and new anger, and it was men who took the heat: as repressive husbands, lackadaisical fathers, selfish sex partners, exclusionary businessmen, blind-sided artists and perpetrators of a patriarchy that had to be overthrown. Even Shakespeare was a sexist for a little while. The press cut in on the dark carnival atmosphere, and in some measure contributed to it. On the occasion of a Miss America pageant, a marginal faction of young women...
After dinner Nancy did not see her husband between Friday morning and Sunday evening. No spouses were present during the Versailles economic deliberations. The First Lady visited a center for the blind and a school for chefs in Paris and on Sunday attended a ceremony in Normandy honoring the Americans who fell in the D-day invasion 38 years earlier, while her husband was closeted with the chiefs of government in Louis XIV's palace...
Watergate passed itself memorably into American myth. Books by almost everyone involved came tumbling off the presses. The movie All the President's Men and TV miniseries like those based on John Dean's Blind Ambition and John Ehrlichman's novel The Company turned the history into the sort of instant legend in which fact and fabrication become indistinguishable. Watergate created its own rich vocabulary-of "stonewalling" and "twisting slowly slowly in the wind," of the "limited hangout" and expletives deleted." Haldeman, Ehrlichman and "the Big Enchilada,' as they called Attorney General John Mitchell, spoke...
...successfully made the transfer to Broadway. This one will. In Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson takes up the saga of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, some 20 years after the events recorded in The Miracle Worker. In that play, Sullivan led the deaf and blind Keller in a long night's journey into light. The sequel is quite different. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies...