Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blind or illiterate?" she barked with a practiced air. "There is the sign -- we're closed today...
However, the newly-adopted sanctions are more than just blind punitive measures. Congress has stipulated concrete goals to be met by the South African government, such as the release of the jailed leader Nelson Mandela. In addition, the sanctions package provides $40 million in aid for Black South Africans suffering under the apartheid system...
...film is more than a bit bleak. As they enter the medieval abbey, William and Adso are first approached by an aged, Peter Lorre-type monk (William Hickey), who looks at Adso with his half-blind, lustful eyes and tells him that there is something "diabolical, even feminine" about the monastery. Even the gargoyles are creepy, with skull images where stalagmites once were...
...closest thing to a critical question, one that might suggest an attitude to one's country in between blind flag-waving and cynical dismissal...
...warm smile, has built a reputation as a relentlessly thorough prosecutor who works long hours. She likes solving intellectual puzzles; to assemble her cases, she has used masses of records and files that go back for 18 years, records that other prosecutors did not think worth the time. "Blind alleys disappoint some people," she says. "But I like them. You find many interesting doors on both sides as you walk down a blind alley." In 1985 she sent the Justice Department a 100-page memo outlining how Gotti and the others could be prosecuted...