Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vernon Selective Service Board told Krents it would accept a statement from his eye doctor so that it could classify him properly...
...Oxford, and in time he landed a staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration and reservation...
...Myopic Eye. The danger of such a credo, of course, is that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
...this is his message, Bufiuel dresses it up in Belle de Jour with unaccustomed cinematic smoothness. Instead of the brutal bludgeoning in black-and-white that audiences have come to expect from such Bufiuel classics as Viridiana or Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour is composed in color with an eye to elegance that is well suited to the cool beauty of Deneuve...