Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blind Reporting...
...Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright red dress whose comings and goings are recorded for posterity-or at least the evening news-by the watchful electronic media. Nick-who changes costumes to fit Tom's changing impressions of him-commits suicide spectacularly by stepping on the third rail...
...fact is that E.T. gazes benignly at his young friend Elliott with eyes constructed in Hollywood by a craftsman who makes glass eyes for the blind. Innocence was the quality that Spielberg had in mind, but it is hard to blame Little Sister Gertie when she takes her first look at E.T. and squawks in revulsion. "I wanted a creature that only a mother could love," says Spielberg. "I didn't want him to be sublime or beatific, or there would be no place to go in the relationship...
...Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy, nerve and joyful rowdiness of genius before history took over...
...dispassionate, the work detailed and well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...