Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electrical engineer's son who worked his way through Harvard waiting on tables and selling newspapers, Ather ton earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation...
...scene that confronts Poppa brings a tear to his eye. "I almost thought you guys wouldn't be able to bring it off this time without resorting to something illegal," he muses. "But now I know that out there somewhere, Morey Amsterdam is smiling...
...advancement of science--to a drugged Genevieve Bujold, the young doctor who has stumbled onto the terrible secret, the scene rings familiar. Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and a thousand others have been here before, and one wonders why Widmark isn't indulging in similar eye-rolling or stuttering. Crichton forces him to become a stoic zombie, as if to hide what this really is--a hokey mad-doctor scene--and thus robs it of all possible fun. Coma could use lines like, "You think I'm m-m-mad, don't you?" because without them there...
...Tussaud: one can get within two feet of his Man with Hand Cart, 1975, and the only thing that demonstrates the wrinkles and veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist...
They are stock characters. It does not take a very penetrating eye to notice that some Florida tourists resemble wizened monkeys in floral shirts, or that some American housewives are fat, glazed by the tube and bloated with junk food. But such is the level of Hanson's social perceptions; all his art can do is count the details without furnishing any credible in sights. Like most "documentation" art, it is gratuitous, in a sprawling kind...