Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...functional, it serves as amusement, it is a scale model of reality, moving ever closer to reality. But it is still based on the fascination inherent in an imitation and occasionally imaginative recreation of nature rather than a substitute for it. The imitation of nature ranges from the exquisite blink in an automaton pirate's eye, with lifelike eyelashes and wrinkles on his skin, or the marvel of transparent ghosts dancing around a huge hall, to the vulgar ride through darkest Africa, with your guide shooting at rhinos, hippos, and elephants. One can agree with John Ciardi's estimation...
Nixon was happily making points for 1972 with two important constituencies. Where he really scored, however, was in a crucial confrontation with the Democratic-controlled Congress over financing the 1972 campaign. Eyeball to eyeball, the Democrats did more than blink. They turned away, humiliated...
...Nations came to a halt at John F. Kennedy Airport last week, no one could find a key to the door of the loading platform, and the door had to be taken off its hinges before Peking's men could disembark. Then the loudspeaker system went on the blink just as Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua uttered the first words of his arrival speech. Chiao manfully went ahead anyway, and the words were duly recorded for television: "The people of the United States are a great people, and there exists a profound friendship between the peoples of China...
...thing makes it really different," says Duncan. "Picasso is squinting with laughter. Usually his eyes are deep chestnut orbs that never blink. I find it refreshing that the man who has transformed so many other figures in art sees himself with humor...
Even an experienced Crimson reader might blink at Wednesday's unsigned editorial about Richard Hyland. Usually the Crimson makes some pretense of marshalling evidence to support opinion. But in this case, just after the writer notes that "of the facts in Dick's (Hyland's) case, we know nothing and do not presume to judge," he asserts that "he (Hyland) is a political prisoner...