Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to the sudden twists and demands of political coverage. He is on his eighth presidential race and has been following politics for 30 years, sometimes as a campaign reporter, a New York City-based writer or a White House correspondent. This year -- as every other year -- his practiced eye spots some important differences. "All the contenders are relatively little known in national terms," says Barrett. "This fact, together with the short preseason competition, means a candidate has very little opportunity to recover from a stumble." Because Iowa's favorite son Senator Tom Harkin has that state's caucuses...
...immediately on the defensive, the American auto executives were quick to argue that while they made a lot of money (Iacocca even admitted his pay was "too high"), their Japanese counterparts got more in compensation than met the eye. Claims Iacocca: "Don't feel sorry for the Japanese ((executives)). They make a lot of money. They have a lot of perks. They get bought $3 million houses. They have million-dollar golf-club memberships." His clear implication: when everything is tallied up -- salaries, bonuses and perks -- Japanese and American executives are neck and neck...
...distant relative, at best, of whom the expanded art audience of the '60s and '70s knew little. In fact, the Met's show is the first Davis retrospective in a quarter of a century. For the younger half of the museum public, it should be an eye opener, because Davis' work testifies -- as art historian Diane Kelder says in her catalog introduction -- to an "aesthetic continuity and intellectual integrity . . . sadly absent from the cynical eclecticism and self-aggrandizement that has characterized much American painting in recent years...
...open their markets, the Japanese agreed in the final hours of Bush's tour to find ways to buy more American cars, auto parts, computers, glass and paper. Some of these concessions were in the works long before Bush arrived; others sounded good, but were less than met the eye...
...realized itself in an explosion of hoopla and marketing. Every city had a parade, whether it was for Appalachicola's own 69th Reserve Quartermaster unit or D.C.'s national orgasm of delight--a parade that left tons of garbage in the city, torn-up streets as far as the eye could see, and slightly improved receipts at the local bar as everyone set one up for the boys...