Word: myopic
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...Harden's personal secretary, began counter-picketting against the striking workers in early March. Although Harden and his secretary, June McPhail, insist company officials had nothing to do with the counter-activity, the NLRB found this development sufficient grounds for yet another charge. That company officials should be so myopic as to let their workers engage in actions that will inevitably lead to further legal complications is either hopelessly pathetic or strong evidence that those in charge of Cotrell and Leonard's operation precipitated the dispute. In either case, whether out of justice or mercy, the situation merits NLRB intervention...
...furnishings--a table one moment and a mountain the next--costumes that moved with the action; a return to the acting troupe that prided itself on its adaptability and valued self-sufficiency and independence more than anything else. Relevant theater that did not struggle for its relevance like a myopic woman fingering a porcelain sink for her dentures. "Childish" stories that moved adults. Theater that told its audience to listen, because it had something...
...products. If the stations are required under the Fairness Doctrine to grant opposition groups equal time, however, they may think twice about letting such an advertising trend spread. Otherwise, America may see a new sophistication in advertising, a more complex propaganda. Consumer groups could find themselves protecting society from myopic ideological views as well as faulty products...
...without my glasses it was totally pitch black, like looking out into a cavern. I'm very myopic--my entire career at the opera revolves around trying not to break my neck because you can't wear glasses on stage. In Aida, for example, I was a torchbearer in the big triumphal march. You walk out, you walk downstage, you hit the front of the stage, and the stage drops very quickly because the set is elevated. As you hit that point, you enter the lights that cross the front of the stage, and you're blinded. So one step...
Ratso Rizzo, the crippled hustler of Midnight Cowboy. The grizzled old codger of Little Big Man. The myopic counterfeiter of Papillon. The eager virgin of The Graduate. Carl Bernstein of All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman has played them all in a career of dazzling virtuosity. But in Kramer vs. Kramer, he has assumed perhaps the most difficult persona of all: Dustin Hoffman...