Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think these past two games have been good because they have been eye opening," Scott said. "They have let us know where we stand and I think we are able to rise to the level of the big teams. We just fell a little short." NORTHEASTERN 47 HARVARD...
Darkness. Lightning flashes. The planes of what is not at first certainly recognizable as a human face. The wild rolling eye of what might be a desperate and panicked animal. A splash of color--blood seeping from fingers clawing at the shackles...
...squeamish for horror," he says. "I can't handle all the blood." In fact, he really wants to be the next John Hughes, albeit for a far edgier generation than the one that peopled The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Williamson's calling card may have been an eye for artful carnage, but his staying power derives from his ear for the voice of the '90s teen, whom he describes as "a very self- aware, pop-culture-referenced individual who grew up next to Blockbuster in the self-help, psychobabble...
...assassination of Iraq's murderous dictator might be rationalized by the biblical injunction of "an eye for an eye," but it would not be the right kind of retaliation at a moment when the world needs a lesson in justified, legal criminal prosecution. Governments have acted ambivalently and timidly in recent "ethnic cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere. Capturing Saddam Hussein and enumerating his evil acts in an international court of law could rekindle lapsed indignation about unconscionable behavior. Saddam's punishment under law, almost certainly a death sentence, would make it clear that moral imperatives supersede...
When the president of the U.S. is forced to take his eye off the ball and spend time on personal affairs, the losers are the people of the U.S. That is what is happening in the Paula Jones case [NATION, Nov. 24], as her new supporter John Whitehead pursues this matter as a "human-rights issue." Next May the case comes to trial, and the President will have to defend himself. Will he then be able to watch the store full time? ARTHUR REIS JR. New York City...