Word: eye
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...SOME DECADES NOW, THE eye-fooler William Harnett (1848-92) has been one of the most popular American 19th century painters. Everyone relishes the stories about his gee-whiz illusionistic skills and how they mesmerized Americans at the dawn of the photographic age a century ago, people less drenched in images and less blase about them than we. "So real is it," wrote a Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle...
...sound bites, has all but abandoned hope for intelligent life in Washington. It may be impressed by Gore's sustained intellectual concentration and mastery of his subject, the environment. Gore has studied it a while. In the 1988 campaign, the Senator held the wedding guests with his glittering eye and talked about such obscurities as the greenhouse effect and the thinning ozone. Another candidate said he sounded as if he were running for national scientist...
...PLACE TO MURDER A WOMAN IS IN THE home. On the day after Christmas, when Isabelle Barney looked through the peephole of her front door, someone shot her in the eye. A considerate death: painless and not much damage to the door. In "I" IS FOR INNOCENT (Henry Holt; $18.95), her best-crafted alphabetical mystery yet, Sue Grafton sends p.i. Kinsey Millhone around the small city of Santa Teresa, Calif., as if her 1974 VW were the pencil in a follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting...
...strikes me as singularly unfair thatHarvard, so obsessed with its own position in thepublic eye, suddenly becomes so shy when a matterlike this, that will bring it intenseembarrassment, comes up," Cicchino said...
...spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean eye...