Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, the Noriega indictments and the Kerry hearings suggest that the Reagan Administration has selectively ignored some narcotics dealing. Says Representative Larry Smith, a Florida Democrat who heads a congressional task force on narcotics: "You can't tell people 'Just Say No' at home, and then turn a blind eye on the diplomatic front...
...Frats and sororities are usually pretty involved in community service," says Stewart K. Levy, Stanford's Intrafraternity Council chairman. "They can spend a weekend taking children out to a ballgame, painting houses for the blind and doing all sorts of charitable work...
...concert segments which Frank included do seem to have the express intent of deglamorizing the musicians and their work. During a concert with Stevie Wonder, for example, we watch Mick Jagger awkwardly attempt to share a mike with the blind musician. He bends over Stevie's piano bench, dodges the waves of his unknowing head, looks exasperated and finally gives up. The one close-up on Stevie himself captures him as he accidentally knocks his dark glasses off and fumbles to slip them back...
This is now the clash that confronts the Democrats. Paul Simon is struggling to parlay a close second in Iowa into political survival; Albert Gore is hunkering down in a hunting blind in the South, lying in wait for Super Tuesday; and Mario Cuomo still hovers mysteriously in the wings. But for the moment, the two contenders who ran first and third in Iowa will define the Democratic debate. Dukakis' opposition to Gephardt's agenda of get-tough trade policies and an oil-import fee is only part of the equation. More telling are their differences in orientation and outlook...
...favoring wealthy white Americans, they are obviously a de facto form of discrimination, and one which discriminated not only against Asian-Americans, but against all minorities and underpriveleged individuals. Furthermore, by favoring extremely wealthy families who once dominated Harvard, the "legacy" policy undermines the principle of admission blind to financial need. That the University uses the "legacy" policy to "prove" that the Admissions Office does not discriminate is remarkably ironic, if not hypocritical...