Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walter W. ("Red") Smith, LL.D., sports columnist. A stylist in English prose, whose sharp eye has unsettled many a phony...
From the start, Warhol worked to a chorus of cheers and jeers. Campbell soup-can silk screens ladeled him with fame, becoming artistic beacons gazing at life's banal objects with a wan, reportorial eye. Turning to moviemaking, he lifted the underground cinema's popularity to new heights while sinking the contents to sadistic depths. His bent is parody and plotlessness, and he has a whimsical flair. Sleep shows six hours of just that; Empire, eight hours long, stars the Empire State Building. ****-the title spoofs film ratings-originally lasted all day and night...
Trouble & Tragedy. Following his father's death in 1965, Randolph mellowed markedly. Dropping out of the public eye, he turned to a new task; writing a five-volume biography of Sir Winston's life. "I've wasted a lot of my life," he conceded. "Now there's a satisfactory conclusion-good solid work to do." He had finished two of the volumes, both of which won critical acclaim, and was at work on the third when he died of congestive cardiac failure...
...occipital lobe, that part of the cerebrum directly above and extending past the rear of the cerebellum, affects vision. Other lobes of the cerebrum house seats of personality, intellect, speech, memory and sensory-motor activity. The midbrain area, directly beneath the juncture of the cerebellar hemispheres, is related to eye reflexes and both eye and body movements. It also serves as a pathway for nerve tracts running to and from the cerebellum and other parts of the brain. A bit lower and most vital is the brain stem, the "old brain," which man has shared with other creatures since...
...private organization like UPA has the added advantage of being able to work relatively quietly. Both Hartman and Fein suggest that relationships between academic "experts" and the community should be formed outside the public eye--"without trying to earn brownie points," says Fein. Technical assistance, says Hartman, "should be given by individuals offering something in subservient roles...