Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buildings and Grounds carpenters last week drilled one-way fish eye "peepholes" into the doors of all Lowell House rooms occupied by women as a precaution against robberies...
...seems that there is a little problem with one of the English profs down at old Siwash U. He has his eye on the pretty coeds, and he, well, he takes advantage of them. Not that the poor fellow (Hal Linden) can help himself. He, like any other vampire, cannot be held responsible for what happens when the sun goes down. NBC, however, can be held responsible for the episode, titled Elegy for a Vampire, and for all the other stories in this series. They are consistently dreadful, substituting the chill of boredom for the thrill of suspense. Week after...
...Christmas shopping season reached its halfway point last week, Americans were already assured of waking up to an eye-popping pile of packages under their trees. Retailers are reporting sizzling gains in sales that by the end of next week will add up to the biggest Christmas ever. In line with the recent consumer spending spree (TIME, Oct. 23), department-store sales for 1972 are running 9% ahead of those for the previous year, with some large merchants ringing up gains of 13%. Discounting for the 3.4% rise in price tags caused by inflation over the past year, that would...
...agrees: "What's the sense of having diamonds if you have to keep them in the vault all the time?" Another factor in the diamond's decline is the high quality of man-made gems, which are distinguishable from the real thing only to the loupe-aided eye of a jeweler. One recent shipment of Wellington Counterfeit Diamonds was held up by U.S. Customs inspectors-until its owners could prove that the gems were artificial...
...event does not automatically gain aesthetic meaning because it is recorded, handheld, on half-inch tape. Too many video pieces are either bald documentaries or hermetic diaries. Watching a tape of some artist making funny faces at himself has as many longueurs as gazing into the painted eye of a Landseer spaniel...