Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enjoyed two kinds of training the most; firearms and "defensive tactics." I learned how to take a gun away from a man and to tear off his trigger finger into the bargain. I learned to kill a man with no more than a pencil; to maim; to blind...
...lead proved short-lived, however, as the New Yorkers responded with a fluke goal at 3:49. Cheevers survived a close call when Bobby Nystrom's 65-foot slapshot grazed the right post, but had no such luck when Garry Howatt's blind centering pass from behind the net bounded off McNab's skates and into the cage...
While these booboos were occurring, moreover, the Globe was taking a beating over its treatment of Mike Manoogian, a blind news dealer who has been hawking papers with oldtime fervor ("Big story! Big story!") since 1936. In December Manoogian was cut off by the Globe, which said he had swiped some copies from a newspaper vending machine. But when one of the man's longtime customers wrote a protesting letter to the publisher, she got back a haughty reply accusing Manoogian of "thievery." Copies of the letter given to local newscasters turned TV and radio on to the case...
...religion. Haze is a preacher, too, but not of any church of Christ. In a South obsessed with Jesus--JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he tries to rebel by founding his own Church Without Christ and immersing himself in sin. His is a church where "the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." He is humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep Jesus Christ from controlling his life but simultaneously embracing the guidance--positive or negative--that Jesus offers...
Fitzgerald's screenplay draws directly on O'Connor's novella, using much of her original dialogue, which is both realistically harsh and softly poetic. And all of the book's strange characters are faithfully recreated: Asa Hawks, the failed preacher disguised as a blind man who begs and steals in the name of Jesus; Sabbath Hawks, his sluttish daughter who falls for Haze; Enoch Emery, the idiot teenage zookeeper who finds a bizarre solution to Haze's search for a new Jesus; Hoover Shoats, the mercenary street preacher who seizes on Haze's Church Without Christ as an exciting...