Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documentary--they prefer to call it "a non-fiction film." The documentary medium tends to imply that the camera is neutral, passive, recording life exactly as it reveals itself in front of the lenses. This pretense is discredited somewhat by the suspicion that people behave differently under the eye of the camera than they would otherwise. No such claims are implicit in the style of Grey Gardens--both of the main characters direct their attention, words, and action toward the camera. But one doesn't get the sense that the Beales' "performances" in any way belie their inner reality. Their...
Attorney General Edward Levi let it be known that he considered the matter "extremely serious." To officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Levi's comment was a monumental understatement. "Extremely serious in a pig's eye," said one. "It's a disaster." What the officials were referring to was a new investigation ordered by Levi into charges of corruption in the FBI'S ranks-for the first time in the bureau's long and virtually corruption-free history...
...recent months Oui and Hustler have run pictorial spreads on bondage, and February's Penthouse featured 13 pages of S-M pictures, including one of a female sadist stabbing a spiked heel into the eye of a bound woman. "Bondage is where the action is," a Playboy editor admits, "but we've been slow to pick...
...design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer, to be the director's "extra eye...
Lindbergh pursued his technical and scientific studies. He also kept an admiring eye on Hitler's new Germany, and was not too shy to express the opinion that white Western civilization was threatened by Asians and non-Nordic bolsheviks. Neither Lindbergh nor his wife was a fascist. Their German sympathies were based on the highest idealism and hopes for peace. Unfortunately, this idealism was so high that the Lindberghs had difficulty focusing the ugly realities of earth-bound Nazism. One has only to read the airy rationalizations in Mrs. Lindbergh's The Wave of the Future...