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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blind dates were free, but they were more often than not a disappointment," said Professor of Anthropology Irven DeVore, who teaches Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," which boasts the popular nickname...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: College Romance' for Students | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...know and we all know unless we're blind that we have not reached the promised land," said Cardinal Bernard Law '53, archbishop of Boston, at the King salute...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...oppose the use of quotas. We want a color-blind society. A society, that in the words of Dr. King, judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character," proclaimed Ronald Reagan, blatantly misrepresenting Dr. King's words and intentions. Turning Dr. King into Dr. Pawn. Following the right-wing trend. Turning civil rights into civil wrongs. Edwin Meese blowing out the candles by spitting on the cake...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...president. It is not Dr. King's birthday we should observe, but his assassination. It's not how far we've progressed that should be measured but how far back we've been set. Over one-half of Blacks think Reagan is a racist. We want a color-blind society, says Reagan. Color-blind, maybe. But like any creature of the silver screen, Reagan can still see black and white...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...lifting us to these heights, he has, miraculously, not distanced our emotions. Somehow, each figure in the vast canvas has a particular and touching life of his own. Kurosawa gives the last shots of Ran to one of these minor victims of great men's grand designs. A blind youth has lost the flute that was the sole consolation for his affliction and the painting of Buddha that was his talisman. Now he wanders to the edge of a precipice, oblivious of being poised unseeing between life and death. His condition symbolizes for Kurosawa the human condition. The fusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lesson of the Master Ran | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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