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...fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur, the onlooker is greeted with his own checkered reflection...
This spring, as never before in modern times, London is switched on. Ancient elegance and new opulence are all tangled up in a dazzling blur of op and pop. The city is alive with birds (girls) and beatles, buzzing with minicars and telly stars, pulsing with half a dozen separate veins of excitement. The guards now change at Buckingham Palace to a Lennon and McCartney tune, and Prince Charles is firmly in the longhair set. In Harold Wilson, Downing Street sports a Yorkshire accent, a working-class attitude and a tolerance toward the young that includes Pop Singer "Screaming" Lord...
...Center, a dozen men in shirtsleeves dash about--consulting a stream of paper tumbling out of one machine or filing a stack of cards into the entrails of another. The banks of the IBM 7094 churn through hours of work in minutes, lights flashing and tapes spinning into a blur, jerking to a stop, and spinning the other...
...turned out instead to be a donnish Johnson. Political commentators from all parts of the spectrum have remarked upon Wilson's exceptional political skill. His singular achievement has been to move his party in from the left, blur distinctions between the parties on a range of issues, and, at the same time, demonstrate that Labour can, after all, govern with prudence and responsibility. Even the Tories have ceased to raise the spectre of socialism's red ruin to frighten the electorate...
Until 5:30 the next morning he stays on the alert for clouds that might obscure the image on his photographic plate or for a sudden movement that could blur it. He nurses his equipment fastidiously as the world's largest telescope swings slowly across the sky, tracking the elusive targets that astronomers call quasars. They are the most distant objects ever seen...