Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing his finger like a traffic cop, he once brought on a hypnotist with the familiar "Here he is!" and poked the poor fellow in the eye...
...dancing on. They are all theatrical ideas, perhaps excessively so. Pirandello is his playwrighting godfather, and all of Pinter's plays could be subtitled "Right You Are, If You Think You Are." Like Pirandello, he believes that illusion is infinite and that truth and reality lie in the eye of the beholder. He assumes that situation dominates character, so that in a different situation the person would be different. Instead of motivation, which implies continuity of personality, Pinter's characters harbor a potential for violence. In a sense, they are socio-historical dropouts: except for their psychological quirks...
...teaching basic design at Hunter College. It was a black box. As he recalls it, his students were constructing basic designs out of flip-top cigarette boxes. Tony had them enlarge their designs five times in cardboard to get the effect of added scale. Then one day his eye was caught by a black file box on a colleague's desk...
City Scale. What Tony Smith and fellow monumentalists want to create is architectonic mastodons, varied enough to refresh the eye after the stark grids of city walls and streets, strong enough to war with jet-generation girders, large enough to command space-age piazzas. Out of the present confusion, Smith believes, a single, unifying style will emerge: "Art is becoming a tangible reality to the public. People are beginning to pass this stuff on their way to work. As art becomes public in this way, people will develop a judgment about it, a sense of universal style...
...only in three times a week with his column and on that basis I have a chance of beating him four times a week."*The younger Friendly concedes that "Daddy is a much more graceful writer than I am, and can definitely type faster. But I have a better eye for color." He was not at all apprehensive when Daddy, who had been managing editor of the Washington Post, returned to news reporting and was sent to cover the Mideast war. "He did as good a job as anyone who was out there," thinks...