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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today Red China's economy gasps and shudders like an abused donkey engine. The "great leap forward" that was to make China a major industrial power in the twinkling of an eye has instead produced something close to chaos. In the ant-heap rural communes that were to convert 500 million peasants into depersonalized, multi-purpose labor units, there is apathy and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Mechanical Man | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Stuart Davis, by E. C. Goossen, traces the logic that leads Davis to paint as he does. Davis' sharp, brassy, eye-hurting brand of abstraction is something all his own, however, and not easily analyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boost for the Natives | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge to his arm and eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...camera marks the most important advance in the technology of eavesdropping since the invention of the keyhole. The prying eye can now record what it sees, and gossip has become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peeping Tome | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Hawaiian Eye (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Newest of the private peepers are a couple of uninsular operators named Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka. Their very first caper, Malihini Holiday, traces a murder plot all the way from London to Waikiki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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