Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice: "To me, it was the most erotic and satisfying night of sex I had ever had, and as she lay in my arms afterward, relaxed and fulfilled, I wondered exactly how Fate was going to extract its inevitable dues. Would I soon go blind? Or become a paraplegic? What hideous vigorish would Harold Cohen be forced to pony up so the cosmos might continue in its harmonious rounds...
After 3½ years of feuding with Alexander, many generals have concluded that he is blind to the importance of the brass in a peacetime Army. Says a retired lieutenant general: "He understands privates, but his interest and respect does not extend to the professional NCOs and officers, and those are the people who keep the Army going on the dark nights." Replies a former civilian aide to Alexander: "Some of the generals think that they are due respect just because they have a couple of stars on their shoulders. Cliff doesn't look at it that...
...wrote "the definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx." It means being offered unproducible scripts, including a musical-comedy treatment of the Guyana massacre. It means being solicited to join committees for Soviet dissidents, to help stamp out leukemia, to donate a personal item to a celebrity auction for the blind ("Somebody told me you wear a truss. An old truss would be just wonderful"). It means being asked to sit for an interview on "the shallow indifference of wealthy celebrities." And everywhere there are autograph freaks. A young woman asks, "Would you sign my left breast?" He does...
...come in off the road." Kuralt is gloomy about the relocation, but typically tireless: he will rise at 2:30 a.m. daily to write his show, though he will be able to do "damned little" reporting. Says he: "I guess I asked for it. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is now in jail." Starting Oct. 27, visiting hours will be Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., E.S.T...
Antonis Schetakis, mayor of Kisamos, explains this exercise in church democracy by force: "At a time when, instead of trying to solve our social problems, the church is only worried about the blind support of old and uneducated women and how to exploit its vast property, Eirinaios is a hope and a symbol for the future." At week's end the Patriarchate and bishops of Crete worked out a plan to shuffle episcopal assignments so the see of Kisamos eventually can be opened for Eirinaios' return. But street mobs were demanding that he be restored immediately...