Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians again outfoxed the experts-and the eye...
...possibly even record harvests. Agriculture Department inspectors visiting the U.S.S.R. were taken out to collectives to see sturdy stands of corn and wheat-fields that they now know to have been exceptions. Even the CIA was taken in. It has been trying to keep tabs on Soviet agriculture with eye-in-the-sky photo satellites, and its findings have been reasonably accurate in the past. But this time the photo interpretations went awry, because of what the agency calls bad 'ground truth" data-information from the observers escorted by the Russians...
...figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel's folds are echoed by the edge...
MANY HARVARD STUDENTS seem to have--on the cultivated surface at least--an unbounded propensity for cynicism. Whether this stems from truly eye-opening, hide-hardening experience or whether this is simply an immature attempt to appear worldly and sophisticated is questionable. One suspects it's a little of both. In any case, First Love, directed by Joan Darling--the person who brought us Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman--is probably too maudlin and sentimental to touch the hearts of many Harvard students. Most will guffaw rather than cry. The most blase will leave laughing at the film's triteness...
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