Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part avoiding blind reverence, McKellen can't suppress a few instances of sickly sweet piety. As he takes one of his final departures from the stage, McKellen evidently can't resist the temptation to cast a wistful glance toward "Shakespeare's grave," the floorboards at the back of the stage which McKellen lovingly dusts at the beginning of the evening...
...finely chiseled Bryn Mawr student and Philadelphia heiress with bloodlines as imposing as his own. Du Pont retains fond memories of the cutthroat competition of Harvard Law School but only dim memories of what he calls his "very conventional" life before then. While at Princeton, he had a blind date with Vassar Student Jane Fonda but cannot remember what they...
...gouge his wrists, foot and elbow. His son, Wolf Rudiger Hess, 49, a Munich civil engineer, complained about "too many mysterious circumstances" surrounding his father's death, while Alfred Seidl, the old man's lawyer, argued that it would have been physically impossible for Hess, frail and nearly blind, to have throttled himself. The suicide was a particular embarrassment to the U.S., which for 40 years had taken monthly turns guarding the prisoner with former World War II Allies Britain, France and the Soviet Union. American soldiers were responsible for minding Hess at the time of his death...
...cleared a road for his truck through brush that he stacked neatly in a pile -- a future home for rabbits. He once found two baby squirrels while cutting, tiny blind creatures, and took them home to bottle feed. "Gentled 'em so that when they grew up they'd come when I called...
...raid on an after-hours "blind pig" bar in Detroit, a scuffle between a Newark cabdriver and the police -- these were the flash points 20 years ago as the summer of 1967 erupted into the Fire This Time. Ghetto despair gave way to grotesque destruction: 43 dead in Detroit, 26 killed in Newark, injuries and arrests in the thousands. By September more than 100 cities had been scarred by rioting, an alphabetical roster of shame that stretched from Atlanta, Boston and Cincinnati to Tampa and Toledo. National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and a federal commission probed the causes...