Word: eye
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...country. America's historically indiscriminate embrace has depended on economic opportunity to make the whole enterprise (The Dream) function. Obviously, angers and abrasions deepen when many are competing for fewer jobs. In such an atmosphere, television acts often as a universalizing, mediating influence. It becomes a kind of third eye, however myopic on occasion, or however silly. By telling stories as it does (however skewed its critics, like Quayle, may think the stories are), television may militate against fanaticism and fantasies of revenge. The medium's demographic gyroscopes almost inevitably discourage bigotry. It is sometimes a shaming agent: a drama...
...many things early and easily. Photojournalist on four continents. Writer with a keen eye and the instinct not to wound. Later, wife of French filmmaker Louis Malle (Pretty Baby, Au Revoir les Enfants) and nurturer of a tricoastal marriage in California, New York and France...
...building was too low, he says, causing the walker's eye to roam over the roof to the buildings in the rear, rather than straight down the street to the plaza in front of St. Paul's Church...
...building was too low, he says, causing the walker's eye to roam over the roof to the building in the rear, rather than straight down the street to the plaza in front of St. Paul's Church...
...style, as readers of Slaves of New York and A Cannibal in Manhattan have already discovered. THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP (Crown; $20) continues the author's carom through the Big Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable...