Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitors. The subject of modern British art has never been tried in depth by an American museum. And no matter what quibbles and demurrals one may have about the choice of this work or that name, the Royal Academy has done a wonderful job. No one with half an eye could spend a couple of hours in Burlington House and leave without asking why the cumulative achievements of British painters and sculptors -- as distinct from the popularity of a few individuals, such as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and David Hockney -- have been so scanted by the official and mainly American...
...account that emerges from that brief visit is, as one would expect, quickened by a novelist's eye. Rushdie the symbolist notes that the wife of the deposed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was named Hope and that the Ministry of Culture goes by the acronym MINICULT. Rushdie the ironist observes that the campesinos battling "U.S. imperialism" dine to the radio accompaniment of Born in the U.S.A...
...that Mary Costelloe shared his fastidious conscience. Simpson places her in the thick of the compromises that were needed to support the Berensons in international high style. She is credited with having ghostwritten her husband's best seller The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1894) and with possessing an eye good enough to attribute paintings in his name. She was also adept at smuggling national treasures out of Italy...
Porn-shop owners have kept a close eye on the coalition of religious and women's groups coalescing around the issue of exploitation of children and women. As a result, nearly all of the most lurid fare, dealing with children, bestiality and torture, is gone from the shelves. Some stores have begun removing milder material on bondage and discipline as well, on grounds that the legal and political hassles involved are too much trouble for such minority tastes...
...previous 1,800 years of astronomical history are any guide, astronomers say, a supernova visible to the naked eye should occur in or near the Milky Way galaxy four times every thousand years or so. But from 1604 to 1987, none were recorded. (The supernova of 1885, just on the threshold of visibility in the night sky, took place in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.2 million light-years away.) To be sure, many stars flared up during this interval. But astronomers now know they were not supernovas but nearby novas. These are shorter-lived events, caused by the sudden explosion...