Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gico even seems capable of controlling the audience. "Watch the mirrors," she instructs them, in a reference to the mylar-coated reflecting panels which encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what was obviously an uncomfortably long time for many of the patrons. The unusual interlude greatly increased the audience's need for the play; their relief was evident when movement began on the stage as suddenly as it had ceased...
...Riggs had no such confidence. He had tuned into the public eye as taunter of the Cause, and his mouth put him treacherously far out onto the line. The chauvinist pitch was only his means to exploit the public temper. So he sloganeered like a mechanical mouthpiece,. or the little kid who recites what he's heard from his parents' discussions -- not because he understands the import of the phrase, but because he'd seen it trigger an excitement...
Much of this ground has been fought over before. Yet Kind and Usual Punishment is a persuasive tract with a murderous eye alike for delusive penal rhetoric and abusive practice. Eugene V. Debs once stated this ideal: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Jessica Mitford has the sublime un reasonableness to treat that as an imperative...
...dour, daft family, his rages, his uncomplaining wife ("He felt a drop in her interest when she seemed certain there was nothing much in it for her but pleasure"), his keen, cold eye, his utter isolation−they all unreel as episodes unreel by the roadside, bizarre but not unexpected...
...important part of real social documentation, although in spite of it we never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...