Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thank goodness they are home. But will our emotions blind us to the events that led to the embassy seizure? The U.S. role in reinstalling the Shah in 1953 and our continued support were as inexcusable as Iran's recent behavior. The hostages suffered for America's sins...
...every East Asian in the film was a leering, growling monster. In the end, our brave soldiers, having endured imprisonment, mutilation, and the deaths of their comrades, join their families and friends in a rousing rendition of "God Bless America." The controversy over The Deer Hunter's racism, its blind patriotism, and its historical inaccuracies (some would say lies) exploded in angry editorials and boycotts of the film. Important questions were raised: Did the artist have a right to distort the terrible social and political realities of recent history for the sake of drama? Did the artist have a social...
...Irish playwright, almost blind, appears in his shabby, shadowy room, warmed by a dark red blanket, looking like some sort of sweet yet cranky prince of the mind and spirit. On the basis of his memoirs, that is just what Gjon Mili appears...
Horror movies are most chilling when they call on a fear from our collective unconscious. Moviegoers can empathize with being attacked when vulnerable in a shower, being blind with a killer in the room, or swimming in shark-infested waters. But being mutilated by a formless monster living in the sand is not necessarily an ingrained fear. Nonetheless, this is Blood Beach's device, and as the movie's Detective Royko says, in typical horror movie fashion; "it will strike again and again and again until somebody does something about...
...agrarian reform in particular, were alien and menacing to an ancient religious culture. Not for nothing did those millions of Iranians demonstrate and strike in the schools, factories and oilfields. The U.S. refused to recognize the depths of the Iranian culture as a whole. That made it not only blind to the coming of the revolution but also wholly dumbfounded in dealing with Iran once the hostages were seized...