Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Manhattan native Henry Jaglom was appalled when he arrived in Los Angeles 26 years ago. To his Eastern eye it seemed that every billboard and bus bench in the city screamed out with advertisements extolling the rewards of the perfect body. "Coming from New York, you have an open-mouthed reaction to the way things are defined by the physical out here," says Jaglom, a filmmaker whose exercise previously consisted of walking and an occasional bike ride. "I thought it was all so superficial. I was very disdainful...
Outside the conference hall there were a few grudging handshakes among advisers, but also shouted epithets like "terrorist!" and "murderer!" In formal sessions Arab, Palestinian and Israeli delegates would rarely even look one another in the eye as they denounced each other and laid their cases before the world, but nobody walked out. At the end of three days it was uncertain, in the most literal sense, where the talks were going: the delegates concluded the opening phase by quarreling bitterly about whether they should continue meeting in Madrid or move to some different venue...
...maybe; the opening was devoted to public relations posturing and symbolism. The Arabs and Israelis were there only because Bush and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker had seen to it that they could not afford to be absent. Boycotting the talks would have given the boycotters a black eye in world opinion. Attending allowed them to play to the biggest audience ever...
GEORGE BUSH canceled a two-week trip to Asia last Wednesday, the day after the nation's elections weren't so kind to Republicans. He might have wanted to stick around to keep an eye on Congress, as his spokespeople say. Or he could have been so jolted by the election results in Pennsylvania that he decided to stick close to home to solidify his shaky political position...
...Jerry Parsons, Grossman gives perhaps the most professional performance, developing a character sketch through details, such as the way he holds a pair of eye glasses. Especially while searching for a set of lost keys, Grossman seems completely comfortable and confident on stage...