Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between Fifty and the Capsulon. Fifty (John Lawrence Chatty) plays the individual battling the system with the proper mixture of defiance and control, never allowing his frustration to erupt into histrionics. Similarly, Fifty's friend (Michael Preston) offers a solid, if at times overly affected, picture of the archetypal blind follower...
...current bank notes were around for so long they had become an easy target for counterfeiters. The new ones will be tougher to fake. They each have a spray of colors, 15 for the 10,000 yen note alone, and larger watermarks. For the blind, they will bear their value in braille. One problem with the new bills is that vending machines, where the Japanese buy everything from railroad tickets to whisky, will have to be converted to accept the new currency...
...over by the matador, at the bullring watching Escamillio in action. Beckoning to meet him outside, he begs her to be his love again. The closing aria is one of alternating pleading and denial in which Carmen, refusing to become a caged bird, falls victim to Don Jose's blind rage...
...fulfillments he finds on his stroll along the path to salvation must be contrasted to the jazzy emptiness of the women's lives. The plot must also be maneuvered toward a denouement in which Isabel gets the comeuppance that popular fiction always metes out to the emotionally blind. And poor Sophie, besotted by drugs and sunken to prostitution, must suffer, despite Larry's noble attempt at rescue, the instructive tragedy that popular fiction always awards the emotionally vulnerable...
...mobster's associates, Louis Cirillo, now in prison on a narcotics conviction. When Nargi failed to repay the money on time, Masselli, who had no construction experience, appropriated Nargi's equipment, hired his workers and muscled the owner aside. This was protested by Salvatore ("Sally Blind") Frascone, a soldier in the rival Bonanno Mob family and an in-law of Nargi's wife...