Word: eye
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Along with its eye for color, ERTS has another useful capability. Because of the timing of its polar orbit, the satellite passes over the same spot on earth at almost precisely the same hour every 18 days. Lighting conditions at each site are thus unchanged (except for the slow seasonal drift in the angle of the sun and possibly different cloud cover). As a result, there is little difference in shadows from one picture to the next, and ERTS can quickly spot any changes in terrestrial features since its last visit...
...ceiling-projected, as it were, on a blank canvas. Here Francis discovered a motif to which he would constantly return: the specific qualities and the substantiality of light. It permeates his earliest grand-scale painting, Opposites. 1950: the radiance flickers through successive depths and opacities, and even an eye tired by the scale of recent American art can still experience some of the surprise that, more than two decades ago, the size of Francis' canvas (8 ft. by 6 ft.) provoked. But rather than engulfing the viewer, Opposites caresses: a sea, but of rosewater. Its character-like that...
...Hugh Person, sometimes mispronounced "you person." The young agent of a New York publisher, he is inclined to somnambulance and sexual self-doubts. The story itself consists of four visits which Person makes to the Swiss town of Witt, layered upon each other and made transparent to the narrating eye. So that there will be no future--only chunks of present and past--the last visit sandwiches the previous ones by beginning and ending the novel...
...satire of "the Viennese quack" and his "Sigmundian school" is refined into a brief parody of dream research. Of "some two hundred healthy jailbirds" investigated, "one hundred seventy-eight of the men were seen to have powerful erections during the stage of sleep called HAREM ("Has A Rapid Eye Movement") marked by visions and causing a lustful opthalmic roll, a kind of internal ogling...
Though slowed in recent years by a heart condition, arthritis and a case of diabetes that left him blind in one eye, Robinson was never without a cause. When the World Series opened in Cincinnati this month, he was presented with a plaque commemorating the 25th anniversary of his arrival in the big leagues. "I am extremely proud and pleased," he said, "but I will be more pleased the day I can look over at third base and see a black man as manager." Among the hundreds of eulogies for Robbie last week, the simplest and perhaps most telling...