Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until now, the commercial results have surprised eager entrepreneurs by their failure to attain superhit status. It may be that there is less to Bruce's legend than meets the enthusiast's eye...
...someone like Bruce as a misunderstood genius, an artist ahead of his reactionary times is irresistible. So Director Fosse cops out, buying and selling, without insight or irony, his protagonist's own version of his life and hard times. As he proved in Cabaret, he has a fine eye for the gritty details of the grimiest levels of show business, but here realism (the film is shot in grubby black and white) reinforces the mistaken belief that Fosse's account is the full truth about Lenny...
Many miners lose an eye, and many more lose fingers; the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration estimates that three out of every five miners who have been in the pits for 20 years or more have lost a finger in a conveyor belt or some other machinery. In addition, 215,000 miners are disabled by black-lung disease, caused by breathing coal dust. Says Miller: "A miner who gets black lung gives up ten or 15 years of his life. And it's a helluva way to go. It took my stepfather five years...
...outcome of Jenny Rastall's suit merely confirms what Snow readers were told a dozen novels ago: power and justice are two different things. Despite his cool eye, Snow cannot really be hard on those who are, after all, his fellow clubmen. An overachiever-physicist and parliamentary secretary as well as prolific novelist-Lord Snow cracked the Establishment at about the time the Establishment cracked. More softy than satirist, the clerk's son makes a case for the not-so-happy few even as he chronicles their ineptitude, their folly in a world they never made. These...
...eating animals. If the dingo-becomes extinct, the herbivores will proliferate and compete more vigorously with Australia's sheep for pasturage. The result would be a far more serious threat to the sheep than is now posed by the dingoes themselves. Indeed, viewed with an ecologist's eye, the much maligned dingo seems to be one of the sheep's better friends...