Word: eye
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...year is 1948, and in postwar Los Angeles, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, of course) is enjoying newfound prosperity at his old trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire...
...first TV job: as a reporter at WISH-TV, the Indianapolis CBS affiliate. She specialized in farm stories, anchored a Saturday-night newscast, and found herself the butt of jokes by a local radio personality named David Letterman. After three years at the station, she caught the eye of executives at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, who were looking for someone to co-anchor the evening news. A few days after her audition, Pauley got a call from the station's news director, offering her the job and a salary more than triple what she was making. Recalls Pauley: "He said...
...real craftsmanship of Flatliners lies in its filming. Schumacher-whose past accomplishments include St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys --has a wonderful eye for mixing film media, toned film with color film with grainy black and white. The cuts between short scenes are nothing short of brilliant, and the segues between fantastic and real scenes breathtaking. Schumacher chose an appropriately gorgeous and gothic campus (Loyola University in Chicago), as well as sparse city streets that are supremely atmospheric, and bathed them in haunting blue light, tatters and haze...
BOSTON--A test that blows puffs of oxygen at the eye identified Alzheimer's patients in a group of elderly people, suggesting it may help in diagnosing the mind-robbing disease, a researcher says...
...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...