Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of Appalachia. He likes to play tennis and ride a trail bike around the mountains in the company of his 17-year-old daughter Cynthia. An avid photographer, he has been known to interrupt a tennis game to photograph a flower or a plant that has caught his eye. Last week even a weed captivated him. "The sun had caught the weed just right," a friend explained. "He'd been watching for several days to get the proper shot...
Actor Burt Lancaster, 59, was ready to play Moses, whose eye at 120, according to the Bible, "was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Announcing his role in a six-part TV series written by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Lancaster said, ''Moses will be very different from the version put on the screen by Cecil B. DeMille." None of that larger-than-life stuff. "My Moses will be a real man," declared Burt, whose son William plays the young Moses in Egypt. "Not a hero, not a leader, but a man who is aware...
...figure of Pablo Picasso. Moore had already donated a navy blue suit, shirt, tie and handkerchief for his effigy and had been photographed and measured by Jean Fraser, the museum's chief sculptor. But after recording the last statistic, she confessed to Moore that she really works by eye. "Oh, that's the right thing to do with measurements," said Moore, whose own sculptures are strictly free form. "Ignore them...
...those who saw her perform even once, it was not easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...
MEANING that Brothers and Sisters is an album of nuances, and nuances don't bear up well under the critic's eye. Best to mention highlights; the contrapuntal guitar with one Les Dudek on "Ramblin' Man; the back porch, juiced-on-Saturday-night feel of "Pony Boy," especially in Betts' dobro playing and the hambone finale featuring Butch Trucks and Dickie; the two bar trade offs between Dickie's slide and piano man Chuck Leavell on "Wasted Words;" Dickie's chording on both "Southbound" and "Ramblin Man;" Gregg's vocals alternating between wounded innocence and catatonia throughout...