Word: eye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begin to see the overall design of the narrative. "In detective stories," he says, it's "when we find out who done it." That's the point where we stop worrying about the butler with the sinister moustache or the withered aunt with the poisonous look in her eye and we begin to understand why they were included in the story to begin with...
...granular density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif...
Another former Army captain, Edward Miles, 30, also lost both legs in fighting near Tay Ninh in 1968, as well as one eye and partial use of his right arm. He does not share Clack's views. "It really is going down the drain," he said. "This week we can really see what a farce that whole thing was. It bothers me to face it." Supposing he could go back to fight in Viet Nam? "If I could go back now," he answered, "I'd fight with the North Vietnamese. They are the ones who are doing...
...excitement of confronting his subjects. He would even speak of his two years' military service with the Algerian cavalry in 1860-61 as though they were nothing but art training: "You can't imagine how much I learned in this way, how well it trained my eye." In fact, as Art Historian Grace Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden scenes at Argenteuil in the 1870s, through the cliffs and seascapes of Étretat and BelleIsle in the 1880s to the blue watery cathedrals...
...those who want to disassemble Thurber as an eight-year-old would a broken alarm clock, the gears and springs are all here: the bow-and-arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...