Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When it does not try to fight, cajole, or debate us--but rather to beguile us with the notion that it has an existence separate from our own--then we will watch the circumstance unfold with sight unmarred by vested interests. And having wrought its image clearly in our eye, the play can then trust to our restless minds to draw the inescapable analogies to our own experience. The Caravan Theater has tapped this power with extraordinary effectiveness in the past, and they will no doubt do so in the future. But Focus On Me is an unfortunate lapse into...
...party, to peer at one of Alexander Liberman's painted steel sculptures and snicker, "Huh! Vogue fingernail red!" A common prejudice: for years Liberman has borne the reputation of having too much grace under too little pressure. He is accused of having a "designer's eye." Spelled out, this means that Liberman is good at reeling off elegant solutions to undemanding formal problems but has no very striking imagination of his own. Besides, he is editorial director of Conde Nast-Petronius Arbiter in a gray suit-and there are critics who (subliminally, no doubt) feel that nobody...
...Clarence Mearson, 44, a supervisor with an electronics firm, wants to move his wife and four children out of the two-bedroom, $14,900 mobile home that they have owned near Dulles Airport in Virginia for just over a year. Mearson has his eye on a handsome, $64,000 town house, and he has even saved enough for a down payment. But now he finds that inflation has driven the monthly carrying costs way beyond the limits of his budget. "I can't afford to pay those interest rates, and you can't sell anything any more...
...HENRY Miller dubbed Brassai "The Eye of Paris." Nearly forty years later, long after the obscure young painter had become an internationally famous photographer, Lawrence Durrell could still write that Brassai was a "child of Paris, and in some way the city's most faithful biographer...
Brassai's sensitivity to the character of a subject or situation is matched by an acute eye for form, for the subtle variations of light and dark and shape against background that make his pictures such beautiful formal structures, as well as compelling documents...