Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rarely is the subjective censoring of opinions--both on the front page and the editorial page--of a newspaper apparent to the innocent eye. The process works in a variety of subtle ways. For instance: A newspaper is struggling fiercely with a new competitor. The paper is just barely in the black--mainly because of the munificence of a few established businesses in the groups boycott these established businesses community which have decided to stick with the old paper. Suddenly the city's minority groups boycott these established businesses in protest of discriminatory hiring practices. The progressive editorial board wants...
...Eye of the Needle, Follett...
...simulated. The huge skylight and glass north wall set off its looming 26-ft.-high gateway and the squat bulk of the temple itself. Spotlights etch sharp shadows in the sunken reliefs on its walls, where in panel after panel Emperor Augustus, dressed as a pharaoh, respectfully offers incense, eye paint, wine, crowns or flowers to the two brothers, to the ram-headed Khnum, to the great goddess Isis and her son, the falcon-headed Horus. Two carved lions guard an entrance, and the god Heh kneels to support the heavens as represented on the ceiling. There stylized vultures soar...
USED TO BE, life at the movies was faster, meatier, and larger than what we saw every day. The women were hotter, and their men were cooler. Enemies sought an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but friendship was thicker than blood. As Pauline Kael put it, it was "kiss kiss, bang bang...
...know," he confides, "for my next project I'm going to eliminate the front door. I don't like doors. Instead, you could have a photo-electric eye alarm in a criss-cross pattern, with maybe a siren...