Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Problems that eventually surfaced, sometimes after 20 or 30 years, included clouding of the lens of the eye, leukemia, thyroid cancer, and changes in the genetic material. Particularly vulnerable are fetuses, primarily during their first three months of development, and children under...
Whether or not the shooting is resumed, the battle of words between the inimical neighbors apparently will continue. Hanoi offered new allegations of Chinese troop atrocities, including such barbarities as eye-gouging and disemboweling pregnant women. If anything, the clumsiness of Hanoi's propaganda was more than matched by Peking's. In a ham-fisted attempt to make up for lost mileage in the war of credibilities, China last week permitted eleven Western and Japanese correspondents based in Peking to visit its frontier areas, including two camps for Vietnamese P.O.W.s. The carefully stage-managed tour nevertheless went embarrassingly...
Although Zeffirelli usually has a good eye for sets and atmosphere, even the ambience of The Champ seems bogus. The low-life Florida sporting hangouts frequented by the champ (Jon Voight) and his son (Ricky Schroder) are a tad too pretty; the extras look like a musical comedy chorus. The florid digs of the mother (Faye Dunaway) are so opulent that one expects Astaire and Rogers to appear on a staircase. Such decorative exaggeration is paralleled by Zeffirelli's treatment of his story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes...
...like she's cheating on her lip-reading, she uses sign language like it's her native tongue, she talks in the same eerie high-pitched grunt that deaf people use. In fact, Irving acts handicapped so well that she may have jumped from the super-natural to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat clinic. "I've gotten lots of scripts for affliction films since the word got out that I do my homework," Irving says...
Russell Higley, a city lawyer who drafted the legislation, said the square footage restriction had "a good chance of being upheld in court. We knew it would be challenged, and we drafted it with an eye to that," Higley added...