Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evers had his eye squarely on the elections. "We didn't do what we hoped," he allowed, "but we did all right." Negro leaders this week will hold a strategy meeting to concentrate their support for local candidates and size up the race for Governor. "We will pick a candidate," said Evers. "But we're not gonna...
...prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place on a near-atomic scale, and can be observed only with the aid of an electron microscope. The actual halting and filling in of a crack, however, can sometimes be seen with the naked eye...
...seen two," said a wag, "you've seen them all." Ray Goman of San Francisco's Gay 60's, who expects the fad to fade out by next summer, notes that his male employees trip over topless dancers every night of the week without batting an eye, but still swivel their heads sharply when a pretty girl walks in-fully clothed...
...obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity, are startlingly like contemporary op and psychedelic art. The God of 1,000 Eyes, though menacing in appearance with his tiger skin and collar of snakes, is actually a protective deity in which the eye, symbol of wisdom and knowledge, appears even on his fingertips. Set against a threatening backdrop of flames and darkness, it seems a particularly apt talisman for Bhutan today...
Even so, Staircase is a superior example of its genre. Much of its impact comes from Director Mulligan's eye for setting and atmosphere. His Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera, and his neighborhood is a horrifyingly typical New York slum street. His supporting cast, notably Sorrell Booke as the exasperated principal and Florence Stanley as a guidance counselor in love with instant evaluation, is ideal. So is Fred Karlin's musical score, in its ironic blending of baroque blandness and jungle throb...