Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...most violent opinions are expressed with such a twinkle in her eye, that you have the impression that if you were suddenly to defend an opinion very seriously, she would laugh you straight out the open window...
...Lady Killer. While the murder of a young lawyer is supposed to be perpetrated in this comedy, the real victim is the spectator. The Lady Killer is a preposterous compound of claptrap and labored humor, which seems to have been written solely with an eye to the cinema rights...
...since passed, save for college records and dusty class rolls, into their nameless obscurity; but each one has contributed its share to the physical and spiritual aspect of the University. And if at times a few features of their work do not seem to have been constructed with an eye to the possible standards of their successors, it does not necessarily follow that the memories they recall are in any way less appealing...
Among the "freaks" one notes particularly a sculpture, Red Revel by Albert Dreyfus. A very much guttered wax candle is snuffed by a scull; the smoke issuing from the eye sockets curls up in the form of two reclining; female figures. The whole piece is stained crimson. Afroyim covers one entire wall with his New York Underground, a woven pattern of subways, sewers and steam pipes. Morris Kantor, a cutter of clothes, shows two results of painting at night; one-My Job-is a portrait of himself at work...