Word: eyeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...production of this work, however, stands or falls on its Richard. This one stands--despite the reservations I have voiced about Donald Madden. He merits your attention while I am still waiting for the Richard that I fancy in my mind's eye...
Cops, in fact, seemed for a while to be the government's only answer. Authorities arrested more than 800 stu dents, sent plainclothesmen to keep an eye on others. Gradually, a form of urban guerrilla warfare broke out in Rio. Students hurled pointed stones dug up from the sidewalks, burned an army truck and at one point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police...
Slamming Ramos almost nonstop with both fists, Joe decked the Mexican twice, closed his right eye, and raised egg-size lumps on his forehead. Barely saved by the bell at the end of the second round, Ramos wearily waved his arm in a gesture of surrender, and the referee stopped the fight. For undefeated Joe Frazier, it was Victory No. 21 and Knockout...
Passionate Madness. Perhaps Russell, for all of his years in the public eye, was and is too shy to sit still and be revealed-even before himself. A better sense of his essential qualities emerges from a reading of A History of Western Philosophy than from this self-portrait. In fact, the most pertinent comments and judgment about Russell himself come in the observations and strictures of others. For example, his brother Frank wrote to him back in 1916: "What the world wants of first-class intellects like yours is not action-for which the ordinary politician or demagogue...
Most good journalists sooner or later find a beat that pleases them above all others. Joan Didion's territory is a bleak and joyless neverland located somewhere between Despond and Nostalgia. Under her melancholy eye, even the most familiar people and places take on an air of tragedy. Things seem to be falling apart, and the atmosphere is mournfully laden with unrealized dreams and memories of lost innocence...