Word: eye
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...sickening and dying. The pollution has also caused some frightening and hitherto unknown illnesses among humans. First came the so-called Minamata Disease, caused by a fertilizer plant dumping methyl mercury into a bay near the town of Minamata; it produced in its victims an appalling array of eye and brain damages. Another painful new disease called itai-itai (literally, ouch-ouch) derived from cadmium flowing into the Jintsu River from a mining and smelting factory. Its symptoms: a softening and finally a breaking of the bones. Then, two years ago, a wave of smog-associated complaints began afflicting Tokyo...
...production of this play which explores the past (if less completely and explicitly than Long Day's Journey Into Night), O'Neill left almost impossibly complete directions which specify the characteristics of the actors down to their nationality, and in certain cases, their eye color. Loeb director Kent Paul attempts to fulfill all those specifications. The leading actors are Irish. Josie really looks as if she is five feet eleven inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. And Paul has wisely adhered to O'Neill's original dramatic intentions, not only his staging details; his Loeb production captures the ineffable sadness...
...promoted an extended-care unit for the aged and chronically ill, established clinics in Boston's heavily Italian North End and in depressed Charlestown. He engineered the opening at Logan Airport of a medical station linked with the main hospital for television diagnosis. He also had a humane eye for detail: he ordered the old wooden benches in M.G.H. waiting areas thrown out and replaced with groups of comfortable chairs. In ten years he increased annual donations sixteenfold...
...what may have been a fresh banana" was the crowning blow, especially to the cook who spends considerable time peeling, coring and cutting up all that fresh fruit that really is. We have never used canned fruit and the supposedly expert taste that detected canned and the supposedly discriminating eye that saw the banana was wrong again. We don't put bananas, canned or otherwise, in our fresh fruit. Perhaps there is not a great deal of difference to the casual diner between fresh fruit and canned fruit (although we think there is), but one expects more from a "restaurant...
...fatal shootings at a rate that is three times higher than in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit. Also, during a day-long hearing, a dozen witnesses, eleven blacks and one white, testified. Some of them told of their traumatic experiences; one man testified that he lost an eye after being hit by a police baton. The officer had been exonerated by the police internal affairs department...