Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years has limped through a new-products dry spell, may have regained some of its cachet. Among new consumer products, Sony and other manufacturers viewed lines of video compact- disc players, which provide fare for viewing as well as for listening on standard-size CDs. Sanyo Electric's eye catcher was 3-D television, which does not require users to wear polarized glasses -- and initially will cost at lest $57,000 a set. Both products will be avaiilable...
Unsurprisingly, Riefenstahl refuses to see this Wonderful Horrible Life. "I cried, and they filmed it," she says. "He was brutal." But perhaps this woman whose best hours were spent looking at film could look at this one. It adapts her supple camera style and keen editing eye to an amazing subject. It could be the last great Leni Riefenstahl film...
...dazzlingly bright color. "This way I never have to worry about matching my nails to what I'm wearing," she says, then adds a deeper explanation: "I like the idea that it makes people startle a little bit and think that maybe not everything is just what meets the eye. I think people should be shaken up a bit when they walk through life. They should stop for a moment and really look at ordinary things and catch their breath...
...degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when she later began to write fiction. Incantatory Faulknerian cadences crop up in all her novels, including her first, The Bluest Eye (1970), as in a description of women "old enough to be irritable when and where they chose, tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain...
...eye, fastened to CNN, makes a valuable witness. But it has a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly, spectacularly and ineffectually, like a fire splashed with a cup of gasoline...