Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown hadn't compiled his legislative record with an eye toward higher office. He had introduced a bill to prohibit carrying loaded firearms in pickup trucks, another to allow horse racing and on-track gambling in some counties, another to help day care centers obtain Federal funds, another to liberalize divorce laws. In short, no one was urging him to start house-hunting in Washington...
Brigitte Bardot as Don Juan? Why not? La Bardot, 38, in one of the most eye-raising pieces of casting since Sarah Bernhardt took on Hamlet, plays Don Juan as a dancer-turned-impresario whose chief occupation is ruining men of all ages. For the soon-to-be-released film, Director Roger Vadim did quite a job on his former wife: he got her to switch the color of her hair from blonde to brunette and "she even succeeded in changing her childish voice." Fortunately, he left the rest intact...
...investor, all were rich to begin with, and their formula for multiplying wealth is, to say the least, difficult to follow. It consists of owning, and sitting on, a large block of stock in a major company that the investor or his family founded, and managing that company to eye-popping sales and profit growth. A rundown on the known big winners...
...door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year-has caught the eye of investment analysts, who are recommending the stock to mutual funds. Last year buying by these institutions helped push the price from...
...EXTRAORDINARY EYE for comic, human detail prevents all but a few such bald moments from materializing. On one occasion, the physical possibility of holding hands comfortably while lying side by side is used to subtly underscore Lila and Lenny's uneasy relationship. To emphasize Lenny's guilt and embarrassment during the break-up scene, the camera matches Lila's cries or his frantic whispers with closeups of disapproving restaurant customers within earshot. Lenny's frigid welcome in Protestant Minnesota is highlighted by a monotonous radio voice droning the sub-zero weather report, which seems to follow him everywhere...