Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth by the spacecraft in February. Among other things, the computer-clarified photographs showed that 1) the thick Venusian clouds move 60 times as fast as the rotational velocity of the planet; 2) the Venusian poles are ringed by bright, most likely cooler regions; and 3) a huge "eye"-a break in the thick cloud cover -seems to have opened in the equatorial region, probably because of circulation effects from the sun's heat...
...habit to write to papers after reading reviews of my books. But after coming across the one by Martha Duffy on my novel The Eye of the Storm [Jan. 14], in which she refers to me as "living in Sydney with several dogs and a male housekeeper," I feel I must draw your attention to an incorrect, and I should have thought gratuitous, biographical detail. The distinguished and universally respected man who has given me his friendship and moral support over a period of 34 years has never been a housekeeper. I am that, and shall continue playing the role...
...horse is actually on film, and because the image is too impressionistic, it may be the least effective part of the scene. Later in the second act, film projections-being used for the first time at the Met-are much more powerful. The spectator first sees an eye in the scrim curtain. Like the opening in a Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas...
When you see in your mind's eye...
...President Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service. A tall, rangy man who had to wear an eye patch because of a fishing accident in 1949, Douglas helped shape, and as ambassador helped carry out, the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Western Europe...