Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon studied the draft with Secretary of State William Rogers. Nixon's own lawyer's eye told him that some of the provisions might need some tightening up and that Kissinger would have to nail down the understandings and protocols for the cease-fire machinery. But he was pleased, approved the plan and ordered Kissinger to Saigon to sell it to Thieu. The only dark cloud was a prescient warning by the CIA to expect serious trouble from Thieu...
Last week's scene in the Rander home, which was visited by TIME Correspondent Arthur White, was probably similar to hundreds of others across the country. With an anguished eye toward the stalled Paris peace talks, the families of 554 U.S. prisoners of war in Indochina, as well as the 1,273 other servicemen listed as missing, have resigned themselves to another sad, acephalous Christmas...
...modern headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was unusually subdued for a victory celebration. The banzais were perfunctory and beer toasts stood untouched. Even the usually ebullient party leader, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, looked less than exuberant as he painted in the missing eye on a huge daruma doll, a traditional rite signifying victory or success...
Explicit. Indeed, what is coming from the stage is a theatrical version of the toy kaleidoscope that gives you a black eye when you look through it. Recitals of 17th and 18th century romantic poetry are interspersed with luridly explicit readings from a porno catalogue. Every serious motion, every attempt at discourse, is interrupted by a song and dance, or a conga line, or a snippet of newsreel, or a blast of music, or a wisecrack from the audience...
Photographers are forever going about striking their cameras into the faces of perfectly innocent people. Any exposed to such treatment has a right to fell aggressed upon, for few things are more intimidating than the pale yellow eye of a wide-angle lens examining one's flaws from three feet off. Yet, where would the world be without Photographers, these compulsive image-makers? The editors of the Harvars Bulletin on the whole approve of Photographers. Who communicate the best they can without benefit of the truly noble written word...