Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, "I will take a draft to the Yankees, to the Mets. A draft for President is not conceivable." Cuomo has said that ever since he got hit in the head by a baseball while playing in the minor leagues, "I've gotten very good about keeping my eye on the ball." Last week the old centerfielder stepped back and let the tempting pitch...
recommendations "with an eye to what he wants...
...some extent, the world inside the skull corresponds to the world outside it, an interesting reconciliation. The inner eye and the outer eye may sometimes see the same image, the same dreamy beast standing under the fever tree. The sleeping and the waking become interchangeable. The actual and the psychic coincide...
...performance of Parsifal; at other times she says they met in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building. Bing, whose mental acuity apparently started to decline seriously after his wife of 54 years died in 1983, began writing checks to Douglass. The spending caught the eye of Lawyer Paul Guth, a longtime associate whom Bing once designated to be in charge of his personal affairs in the event he became incapacitated. Concerned, Guth filed a petition to declare Bing incompetent; a legal guardian and conservator were appointed, and Bing's estimated assets of $900,000 were frozen...
Establishing a strong narrative line for this Pennsylvania death trip is not easy. Old Pro Wambaugh chooses the cop's-eye view, telling much of the story as developed by the state police investigation and dispensing considerable amounts of macabre station-house humor. He is also fond of old-fashioned hard- boiled detective prose: "Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel...