Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when I saw it, it looked like me. I thought I was in it." It became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo. The open V of the lapels gapes like a pair of garden shears. Against the odds, Dine has extracted a quite monumental presence from the floppy, unpromising substance of terry toweling...
...Score in The Final Half-Minute: A fitting way to end a flawless game. It took a super pass from transplanted soccer star Lyman Bullard (via Gene Purdy) and a seeing-eye snapshot from George Hughes to find the hole in Skidmore's dike. Hughes typified the emotion of the contest as the usually calm scoring machine went tapioca after firing in the winner...
Employees who have had experience with the union view it with a more "jaundiced eye," because they have seen that many of the union's charges have proven untrue, Rabkin said...
Movies have expended much effort, and received scant reward, trying to revive that beloved figure of another age's popular culture-the private eye. They have lovingly re-created his old ambience (Farewell, My Lovely) and succeeded only in embalming him. They have also tried transplanting him, old knightly virtues intact, into our own time. But whether aware of his awkwardness in this era (The Black Bird) or seemingly oblivious of it (The Long Goodbye), the resulting films have been discomfiting...
...tradition in private-eye melodramas, the enormously complicated plot is merely a convention permitting the hero to come into contact with large numbers of colorful characters, here including a very shifty informer and a bodyguard who thinks he's tough until he runs into Wells, who is not quite as fragile as he looks...