Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty member, I was disappointed to see our students behaving like sheep, with a blind allegiance to an aging hippie or the administration in Washington," Leheny said. "The more people act like cartoon characters, the less likely people are to listen to them...
With the release of his new single "War," Springsteen tries again to get his message across. In a brief introduction, Bruce dedicates the song to teenagers and talks about the lack of information that he and his friends had about Vietnam. He warns them that "in 1985 blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed." The song describes war--"friend only to the undertaker"--as something less than...
...King Kong Lives, a sequel to the 1976 film to be released this Christmas, the lovesick hunk is saved by the brilliant Dr. Amy Franklin, played by Linda Hamilton. She replaces Kong's broken heart with, of course, the latest and largest in artificial tickers. She also arranges a blind date with a brown-haired lovely called Lady Kong. "He gives up on the (human) girls this time," notes Hamilton with a trace of relief. "He falls in love with a woman his own size." Having finally met the gorilla of his dreams, Kong gives up his swinging ways long...
...unsightly affliction. Victims of blepharospasm suffer from continual eyelid muscle spasms that clamp the lids closed for seconds to minutes. In effect, sufferers are left blind. Over the past six years, however, more than 2,300 Americans have had their blepharospasm symptoms eased by an experimental drug called Oculinum. But now nationwide testing has been halted because the manufacturer says he is no longer able to find an insurance company that will sell him affordable liability coverage. Apparent reason: Oculinum is made from botulinus toxin, the deadly bacterial poison that causes botulism...
...other South African civil rights organizations in signing a document called the Freedom Charter, which still serves as its ideological lodestar of record. The charter declares that "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white" and calls for a unified, democratic state governed along color-blind lines. Economic goals are vaguely socialistic, envisioning the nationalization of some industries, including banks and businesses dealing in the "mineral wealth" of South Africa...