Word: blinds
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According to the synopsis, the play spans 16 years and concerns the King of Sicilia, Leontes, whose blind jealousy about his wife Hermione's relationship with his friend the King of Bohemia--Polixenes--leads to the supposed death of his wife, the abandonment of his newly born daughter in the countryside, the death of his young son, and ultimately his isolation in his lonely kingdom. The actual play is filled with mystical presences, such as Leontes most trusted advisor Camillo--who casts spells and forecasts various occurrences--and Paulina, the queen's confidante, who seems to have some special relationship...
That is why Dorothy's response is so unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code, by which naked need and manipulative greed must be clothed for the sake of the respectability he desperately desires...
...hero, Cnaries, Worwode educates the reader as well, and provides a natural jumping off point for the stories and collections to come. The death of his first boy in childbirth has clouded Charles's outlook, but he endures in the face of grave trials and doubts, and his blind obdurance is rewarded just as satisfyingly as it was in the primers of our youth. After his fourth child slips easily into the world and begins to run about with his hair streaming in the wind. Charles can at last look on the world "with less darkness in his eyes: that...
...justify the campaign, party leaders have indulged in some frank selfcriticism. "Serious problems" exist, admitted the release that announced the purge. "Some party members have a vague and confused idea about the basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...
...Mammal (R) 7:30 Don't Give My Baby the Chair (2 hr.). TV movie about blind, interracial couple living in South Africa whose seven-year-old dyslexic son has been accused of rape and murder. Linda Blair and Edward Asner. Tender, raging. 8:00 Sports Spectacular: Bowling from Halifax (R) 8:30 Brighton War Bride (5 hr.). A 78-part BBC series on British hotel life during World War I, specifically January-March 1917. Superb cast...