Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, blacks feel strongly that there is little or no incompetence among them. Kilson says, "All of us are of as good a quality or better (than whites)." Furthermore, Harwell says that "today I have no reason to believe that appointments are made with an eye to diffusing potential protest...
Goya began the Caprichos in 1797, at the end of a bitter love affair with the libidinous Duchess of Alba. In a good position, therefore, to cast a critical eye on Spanish aristocratic society, he conceived a series of "suenos," or dreams. For his frontispiece, he made a print which he called "El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruous"--the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. A man lies crumpled on his desk, asleep, and devoid of reason: he is attacked by a horde of owls--the Spanish symbol for dirt and stupidity--black bats and a glaring...
...immediate suspicion when film stars engage in this sort of enterprise is to assume that they are massaging their egos. It would be truer to think of them as returning redemptively to their roots. At its best, acting is finding oneself in the attentive eye and reciprocal embrace of one's fellow human beings. The only place where that can happen is on the living stage...
...single moment during Juno and the Paycock is one unaware that Roman Catholicism, Ireland and the Boyles' intense awareness of themselves as an embattled entity have shaped the people that we see before us. Not for the good, necessarily. O'Casey had as sharp an eye as James Joyce for the foibles of his race, though it sometimes brimmed with an un-Joycean compassion. He knew the perils of being priest-ridden, the curse of drink, the terrible gift of hurting one another that has remained constant from the 1916 "Troubles" to the present...
...play, then, simply lubricious Erskine Caldwell country shipped north? Not really. Estelle Parsons' magnificently wrung-out performance as Mert would alone save it from that. The easy and obvious charge to bring against Mert and Phil is bad taste, but it, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. More than likely, the play and Joseph Papp are being lambasted for presenting subjects that audiences deeply dread facing: the corruption of the flesh, the death of love, and growing old in bleak utter loneliness. There may be too little craft in Mert and Phil, but there...