Take Andreas Heinecke of Germany who globally shifts the paradigm and power dynamics between blind and sighted people all accomplished in a pitch dark environment.

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Sheil and Audley give performances of harrowing power, their incarnations of blind tenderness and fierce desire building to outbursts of feral rage.

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Australia turned a blind eye when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, after Portugal, the colonial power, had bolted.

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The idea of blind obedience isn't as important in these studies as the larger message about the power of the situation, Burger said.

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