Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communications Director Ken Clawson gave another detailed list of the alleged Dean contradictions to the press. At the same time, Press Secretary Ziegler declared: "Anyone who says the transcripts support John Dean hasn't worked at his reading or is looking at it with a totally partisan or biased eye...
...introduction to the catalogue of the Fogg Museum's exhibit Color in Art calls color a "psychological phenomenon." And technically, it is. Light waves of varying lengths are interpreted by the eye and the brain as different shades, which may or may not be sensed by people in differing ways-there's no way of knowing. But color can also mean a flag, a complexion, tonal quality, prima facie evidence or opinion. By synchronizing on their exhibits for the first time, the Fogg and the Museum of Science, with its show Color Around Us, try to give some structure...
Practice was three hours a day. As an undersized and underaged nine year old, I pleaded with Asher to let me be a part of this elite corps. He looked me in the eye, then drew his bulldog-like face right up to an inch of my nose and said: "Do you want to be part of a winner? Do you want to contribute to making the Bulldogs national champions? Do you want to be on that field in front of over 50,000 people when we go up to Chicago and play during the halftime of the Bears game...
...with which he was fully at home: the still life. Still life was the test bed of cubism-the static arrangement of homely objects, a glass, a bottle, a bowl, a newspaper, some cards or grapes, which could bear all the twisting and rotation and chopping that the cubist eye demanded. With a few rare exceptions, like Picasso's famous portrait of Kahnweiler or Gris's 1912 portrait of Picasso, the human figure, mutable and livery and emotionally expressive as it is, was not the ideal cubist subject. Distortion of the face or the body becomes a sort...
Fest weaves a judicious path through the mountain of raw materials that confront any biographer of Hitler. The book is crammed with pertinent quotes and facts. The author has a nice eye for the single sentence that ties together a skein of reasoning. Discussing how Hitler stirred the masses while retaining a certain messianic remoteness, Fest cites the dictator's response to a solicitous woman: "Yes, I am very lonely, but children and music comfort...