Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. This might have been just another kidnaping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster criminal...
...hill town of Pokhara, then hiked toward Dhaulagiri. By mid-April, they had established their first camp, at 12,400 ft., and were pressing on toward their next camp. Then came the first mishap: Deputy Leader William A. Read, of Moose, Wyo., was suddenly blinded in the right eye by pulmonary edema, which sometimes strikes men who go too high too fast. Read left to await evacuation...
...Bialoguski, it was $6,000, which went for renting the hall, hiring the 79-man orchestra and a guest soloist, Pianist Fou Ts 'Ong. Bialoguski also paid for such extras as a pair of contact lenses to replace his thick, dark-rimmed glasses ("the eye is important in guiding musicians...
Kunen's reporting is no mere recital of grievances. His eye catches the wry side of things-including himself. "April 25. I get up and shave with [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from...
...whenever they feel like it, taking food from pots and dishes that always seem to be simmering on the kitchen stove. In Africa, tribesmen still leave food on a fire in the middle of the village for everyone to sample. Another Afro-American characteristic is the habit of eye rolling. Typically, blacks roll their eyes upward when they are daydreaming; preoccupied whites gaze vacantly into space...