Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, Mexican Americans sometimes get less pay than others for the same work. Even the few who have some education do not escape discrimination. Chicano women find that jobs as public contacts at airline ticket counters are rarely open; they are welcome as switchboard operators out of the public eye. Mexican-American men who work in banks are assigned to the less fashionable branches. Promotions come slowly, responsibility hardly ever...
...dull whap-whap that could be heard as far back as the $10 seats (the ones at ringside went for $100), took the early advantage. In the third round Frazier caught Quarry with a sweeping left hook, opening a deep inch-long gash under the challenger's eye. By the end of the seventh round, Quarry's vision was impaired, and the ring doctor stopped the fight...
Today, with the animals gone, the visitor's eye is drawn to the delicate yet cleverly engineered network of wooden joists that support the roof. This inside structuring makes possible vast, interior spaces that seem as impressive, because of the humble materials used, as those of cast-iron railroad stations or steel-structured airline terminals...
important eye...
Talese tends to overinterpret a bit. Still, whether he is studying bullpen pecking order, invoking the camphor-scented memory of Times past, or heightening the Reston-Daniel showdown, at his best he has an eye like a Hasselblad for detail and a novelist's feel for scene setting...