Word: eye
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What do you remember about the circus? Maybe you remember gaudy costumes, or carved wooden emblazonry, or thick crowds, their collective waistline at your eye-level. Maybe you remember the smells: sawdust, roasted peanuts, canvas, hot caramel and the wet-leather-on-a-radiator musk of exotic animals...
Like the ubiquitous religious art of medieval days, Disney iconography reinforces Disney ideology: it announces that this is a complete, hermetic world, an American world that Disney reflects and helped create. And like a pop Chartres, Euro Disney offers an overwhelming wealth of instructive ornament, commandeering the eye and the mind to ensure that visitors breathe, eat, buy and damn well dream Disney. But the riot of detail is also part of the show, maybe the best part. At other parks -- Great Adventure, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios Florida -- the rides are the attraction; with Disney, the park is the ride...
...Albert Barnes, a Philadelphia physician who made millions from an antiseptic he invented and marketed in 1901, had a Medici-like eye for art. But his taste shocked the blue bloods of his day, who scorned him -- and earned his unrelenting enmity in return. At his death in 1951, he directed that no picture from his collection could be loaned, sold, reproduced or even moved from its position on the wall. Future control of the foundation, he decreed, would be in the hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni...
Perhaps. But there is definitely a "Mormon mystique," Rogers says. Although "you can't tell them from anyone else," Young Mormon women are perceived as more cleancut and all-American than their East Coast sister, according to Rogers. "Utah catches their eye," she says. "They think, `Mormon...
...addition to these charges, Tseng was also accused of publicly exaggerating the results of his study by implying that the eye ointment he researched as a Harvard fellow was more effective than his studies indicated...