Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tied to trees or stakes in stadiums, city parks or mere clearings and then shot to death with bursts of automatic rifle fire. At Mbale, where 3,000 people showed up for the event, an army captain and a 17-year-old schoolboy -whose only crime seemed to be eye-witnessing the shooting of a soldier -were stripped naked and covered with white cloth to make their bodies easier targets in the driving rain...
...comment by the government; Dayan himself has been silent. By and large, Israelis seem to share the tolerant attitude of former Premier David Ben-Gurion: he once pointed out to a husband whose wife had run off with Dayan that Lord Nelson (who was also blind in one eye) had an affair with Lady Hamilton that did not tarnish his heroic image "even in puritanical England." When Ruth Dayan complained directly to Ben-Gurion about her husband, he replied dryly that "in the case of great men, the private and public lives will often run parallel but will never meet...
...break. "When a camera films things, people think about them more," he maintains. Sometimes, he adds, members of the family used the presence of the camera in their dealings with other members, knowing that the others would usually guard some responses-restraining anger, for example-with the all-seeing eye upon them...
More evenings than not, that aisle-anchored creature the drama critic peers out over a becalmed stage, stagnant characters and dialogue indistinguishable from soggy debris. But on occasion the sight of fresh and genuine talent greets his eye, and the stage seems to quiver with dramatic life...
...Faculty meeting. As Faculty members and observers ambled into the University Hall Faculty meeting room, they saw the former Dean seated in his usual position at the right of President Bok, trading quips with passers-by and periodically bursting into fits of laughter, always casting a canny eye about the room to reassure himself that everything in his Faculty was in order...