Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striped pole catches Rip's eye. He settles into a chair-only to hear a fresh diatribe from the barber-who now calls himself a stylist. Once, long hair was the exclusive property of the hippies; they have gone but the hair has remained. Now all the straights sport it. The barber talks on about a world gone into reverse. Nixon has toured Communist China, which is now in the U.N. The Empire State Building is no longer the tallest building in the world. The World Trade Center is. Eighteen-year-olds can vote. The New York Giants will...
...Surely I must be exaggerating," Rip thinks. "Why try to understand it all in one gulp? Why try to overtake history? Start slowly, read the leading fiction bestseller. Escape for a while." He picks up Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The story of a what? Of a goddam bird? His eye roves to the self-help books. Here's one: Primal Scream. He tries...
...first female deputy port warden in the U.S., Joellen Natow, 29, patrols Los Angeles harbor, checks the handling of flammable cargoes, and keeps an eye out for thieves, drug smugglers and illegal aliens. She has mastered the use of the .38-cal. revolver she carries, as well as such mysterious port argot as: "There's a camel loose in the channel; get a sea gull to pick it up." Translation: "A wharf pile is afloat; get a refuse boat to pick...
...powering perspective: maize fields that extend to the horizon, forests so carefully cultivated that their trunks establish a sort of grid sweeping off behind the actors. Against such backdrops, human figures appear tiny, lost, joined together only be sweeping pans or long, fluid tracking shots. Narrower perspectives guide the eye: corridors that open out of a stuccoed wall, an avenue of tall poplars leading to the house of a rich local land owner...
Bertolucci turns an equally sensitive eye to shade and tone. Stucco covered by luxuriant ivy, the red tile roofs of the village when the sun is high, are played off against a haunting night-time blue in which lamps stand out in the windows, or, in one stunning scene, a fire leaps up and down, leaving a lingering after-image on film pushed close to the limits of its sensitivity...