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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of them were strong and able men; their land was rich and beautiful, but it seemed as if they had stopped existing. As I lay in my bamboo bed one night, the apparition that had haunted my mind throughout my convalescence became a real thing, naked to the eye: their minds had ceased functioning. This is the core of all our problems--the African has lost his sense of originality, his sense of direction, his ingenuity, his ability to organize, think and meet the challenge posed by internal and external forces. At that time I decided to find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Africa: A Continent of Poverty | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

...which the Chinese sometimes handle people accused of nonpolitical crimes. As for his stories about the less engaging aspects of Chinese life, Munro claims no bias other than his commitment to objectivity. "I wasn't looking for that sort of thing," he says. "It just hit me in the eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Without Gee Whiz | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...columnists are too competitive to be "orchestrated ; but they do move in the same circles and have a common need to catch the reader's eye three times a week or so. They share an environment they do not often leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Jimmy One Term and Johnny One Note | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...brilliant light," explains Special Effects Chief Douglas Trumbull, who also created the effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. "In a way, it's going back to the old radio concept of setting off people's imagination. It's a way of generating something in the eye of the beholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A City in the Sky | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

After 30 years of reading about UFOs, says Trumbull, audiences have "a very abstract, mind's-eye view of what they expect to see in a flying saucer. It's a very religious kind of thing. For a film maker, it's like trying to show Jesus Christ or God. It's very hard to meet people's expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A City in the Sky | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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