Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abnormally cheery House chamber. Just elected the 48th Speaker of the House on a straight party-line vote of 290 to 142, Democratic Congressman Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill replied with a good-natured dig of his own. "My colleague well knows I understand that he has his eye on the Speaker's seat," said O'Neill. "I am sure that is all he has on it." More laughter...
Across the crowded room from Mike and under the expert eye of Maitre d' Paul Delisle was Zbigniew Brzezinski, comfortably at work on his rockfish and the state of the world, much as he used to be when he was a young L.B J. aide. His hair is a little longer, the lines a little deeper, and he has a new title (presidential assistant for national security affairs), but he had no trouble finding his way to the restaurant or through the menu. He never used to have any doubt about what ought to be done to the world...
Sure, it was a thrill and a high for my old teacher to stand up on a French hillside with his rifle sight pressed tight against his eye and pit his life against another. And when he told his story, he always added in a low voice that he was very much afraid...
...without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face kippered flat and streaked with voracious slashes of color; it luxuriates in the shimmer of rosy light, circle on circle, that fills the surface of Delaunay's masterpiece...
STREAMERS. Playwright David Rabe casts a compassionate eye on the combat zone of the psyche in this powerful finale to his Viet Nam trilogy...