Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...25¢ an hour, he worked into the tobacco business, importing Turkish and Bulgarian blends that became immensely popular in Latin America. Three years later, he had saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a dollar millionaire. Then came the Depression, and with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each had cost $2,000,000 to build ten years earlier...
...Particularly evocative are Kawabata's descriptions of the look of Japan. "The solid, integral shape of the mountain, taking up the whole of the evening landscape there at the end of the plain, was set off in a deep purple against the pale light of the sky." His eye for physical description is sharp. "Her skin, suggesting the newness of a freshly peeled onion or perhaps a lily bulb, was flushed faintly, even to the throat...
...meaning will lie in the eye and mind of the beholder. The mirror is the message. The playgoer will see what he wants to see, which, even in these lesser plays, is Harold Pinter's subtlest hold...
...farmworkers distributed wordy mimeographed leaflets explaining the connection between grapes on the shelves in Lawrence and exploitation of farm labor in Delano, California. But the shoppers seemed unimpressed. Most of theim ignored the leaflets or grabbed at them perfunctorily to avoid an eye to eye confrontation with the picketers. Those who did stop were generally confused. They weren't going to buy grapes anyway, so why shouldn't they shop there? Wasn't this a secondary boycott, and wasn't that illegal? When the store closed at ten o'clock, the picketers tallied the two, three, or five shoppers they...
...Moravia has an eye for detail that remains unblurred. His descriptions of a visit to the Great Wall, a dinner of duck in Peking's only remaining Westernized restaurant, and the sight of Red Guards parading beside his train are fascinating and vivid...