Word: eye
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...losers. Kempton measures leaders by their capacity for compassion, summing up the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. with this pronouncement: "A great man is one who knows that he was not put on earth to be part of a process through which a child can be hurt." His eye for the telling detail is never more acute than when rendering a scene of loss. Here he is describing Jacqueline Kennedy and her family entering St. Matthew's Cathedral at J.F.K.'s funeral: "And the children in their sunny pale blue coats began walking with their mother up the stairs...
...ambience of a hospital with steel gurnies and fluid bags, the artists force the audience to view the display with the Foucaultian clinical gaze that has become the bedrock of post-modern criticism. "Sharp Appetites" intelligently examines the history and contemporary situation of sexual politics with an analytical eye. Thought provoking and intelligent, the exhibition balances serious issues with biting criticism...
...reading period begins, students from North House to Dunster are keeping one eye focused on books and another on their Coop-bought daily planners, ensuring that enough time is spent studying for each class...
...Thalidomide, which caused thousands of birth defects in the 1960s, may one day be used to prevent blindness. In laboratory tests, researchers learned that the drug stops abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye, which can destroy vision in people with diabetes and other disorders...
Mandela may simply find it impossible to discipline the wife who suffered so much during his 27 years in prison. Or he might prefer to have her in his government where he can keep an eye on her, since she has staked out a separate role as leader of the most militant and potentially violent of the township proletariat -- especially the gun-toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress...