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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps by the same kind of primitive sorcery that designates propitious and unpropitious days for the President...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Reagan's Starry-Eyed Idealism | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...York can swallow you whole; Pittsburgh merely chews you a little before spitting you back on the plate. In Pittsburgh, there is still a dream of a greater life--thus the recurring image of the Cloud Factory in Chabon's novel. In New York, there are the lights, which blind you, and the bigness in which you lose yourself...

Author: By Mark T Brazaitas, | Title: A Novel About Pittsburgh? | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...Fatal Attraction converted you to misogyny, going to see Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler will have you cursing the female sex ad infinitum. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is not the kind of girl you'd want to be set on a blind date with. She's the kind of girl who plays with fire, firearms to be more precise. She's a psycho killer. Qu'est-ce que c'est?! If you dare to find out, go see her in action this weekend at the Lowell House...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Hedda Strong | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...cameos are real scene-stealers, though, with first-place going hands down to Lara Palevitz as Felix's dream version of his yet-to-arrive blind date. Palevitz plays her as a paragon of the 1940's cigarette girl ultra-bimbo and draws many a chortle...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Trenchcoat Warfare | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...might say that Judge Garrity has a blind spot whan it comes to sexual discrimination. Every woman's group in the country will line up with us in our appeal," Gilmore said...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Seven Years, Still No Answer | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

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