Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them. Parrhasius outdid him, however, by fashioning a curtain that Zeuxis, mistaking for fabric, attempted to pull open. A long line of artists have since striven to equal Parrhasius' success by bestowing an illusory third dimension to flat, featureless walls and ceilings. Known as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye), the style reached its prime in the Renaissance and during the Baroque period, when painters embellished churches and palaces with imaginary soaring columns, weighty domes and clouded skies inhabited by plump putti...
...Crimson could not put the game away, even after Brandeis went cold from the field and the Judges' main scoring threat, center David Brooks, took a seat on the bench after a cut above his left eye refused to stop bleeding. Harrington's 10 points, and eight each from starting forwards Andre James and Everardo Greenaway kept Brandeis close...
...making a random, unqualified attack on Phillips Brooks House. I am a tutor at an elementary school in Dorchester through this organization. It is very eye-opening to go to the inner-city and see what conditions are really like, and it is something I wish more Harvard students would...
...mysterious giants of the deep and a staple of the supermarket frozen-food section. In its ocean domain, this monster grows to 400 lbs. or more and cruises for up to 40 years. It is ugly too; during maturation the skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes only three years to reach market size, rather than the 10 required by the wild variety...
...officials canceled a Bush-Gorbachev press conference that they had scheduled in Paris, obviously because the two Presidents, dining together, had failed to agree on a use-of- force resolution. Both sides then scrambled to deny any impression of a ( serious split. Bush declared that he and Gorbachev "see eye to eye," and any differences are "extraordinarily minor." Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze both said the Security Council needed to take further action against Iraq, but neither would use what journalists have begun to call "the F word." At a hastily scheduled press conference back in Moscow, Gorbachev dismissed...