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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times of a hand, an ear, an eye, a leg and his scalp. And Faye? No makeup required. In her role as a gospel-spouting nymphomaniac, she performs in several stages of undress -once on the floor and once on a bed, where Hoffman pours gold coins on her belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

ALMOST every great city has a river. The poetic notion is that flowing water brings commerce, delights the eye, and cools the summer heat. But there is a more prosaic reason for the close affinity of cities and rivers. They serve as convenient, free sewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Cities: The Price of Optimism | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Though his abstractions-unlike Diebenkorn's-seem to belong more to the realm of fantasy than fact, Natkin manages nonetheless to stimulate the imagination and guide the eye to a place of persuasive charm that is both abstract and real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Halfway House | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...theatricality, as in the swaggering bawdiness of the Drama Club's Mandragora, the Machiavelli farce. Czech acting at its frequent best combines an animal energy with the timing of aerial acrobats. Czechs make superb comedians, and have that highest comic skill-to slip with a flash of the eye into the tragic mask. Czech direction is passionately intelligent. In Architect Josef Svoboda, they have the most imaginative stage designer working anywhere today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...York City. There were few who could match Whitey's wizardry with swabs, antiseptics and astringent lotions in the 60 seconds between rounds, as in 1947 when he saved Rocky Graziano from almost certain defeat at the hands of Tony Zale by patching a third-round eye cut that threatened to end the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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