Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center was an experience of total immersion. The event, a Woodstock in black tie for devotees of ballet, proved almost as demanding on audiences as performers. In all, 31 ballets were presented in seven days, and 21 of them were new works. While Bender kept his critic's eye on the stage, Rosemarie interviewed Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for an article accompanying the review. "The festival went at an allegro pace," said Bender when the 31st and final curtain had fallen. "After this week our own steps have begun to seem choreographed...
...also a symbol for action that turns a noun into a verb. For example, a child who wants to say "Father sees mother" points first to the sign for father, the male symbol topped by the sign for roof or protection ψ. Next the child points to the eye symbol ? and then to the action indicator ψthus transforming the noun eye into the verb see. Finally, the youngster points to the sign for mother, combining the female and roof symbols...
There are perceptions that people can never fully experience without photography. There is the type of scene caught by Cartier-Bresson-people running across a Paris street. That is action we would see only from the corner of our eye; yet he captures it permanently. His picture is not rigidification of the mobile; it is an entrapment of motion. Analogously, in Ansel Adams' monumental scenic pictures, the world stops for human time to flow...
...NEEDLE'S EYE by MARGARET DRABBLE 368 pages. Knopf...
...want to win you have to be vicious." To heighten his perception, he has delved into drugs, fasted and conducted sexual experiments with his wife. To sharpen his powers of concentration, he races his Formula V car. Dominique Sanda, his co-star in The Conformist, describes him as "an eye that listens attentively." Says Trintignant: "I wake up in the morning and think, 'How would my character wash his teeth?' I build up a valise of ideas about him." With that valise, Trintignant never travels light...