Word: eyeful
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When Therese Martin died in 1897, she was an unknown nun of 24. She had lived 15 years at home with her father, nine more in the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux, France. She worked no eye-catching miracles, made no famous converts, succumbed to tuberculosis like many others of her time. Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books...
...Philippines relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "She's a very biblical type of person," he observes. "But it's not from a Hallmark card. It's saintliness as in the Old Testament. On the one hand, you pardon your enemies; on the other, it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...
...Aquino's blaze of righteousness is partly responsible for her luminous, even numinous, magnetism, it also explains her unbending ruthlessness in applying an eye for an eye. "In some ways," says a close confidant, "she's an unforgiving person. She never forgets." When a former supporter, Homobono Adaza, went over to Enrile's camp, she not only stripped him of his $50,000-a-year position on the board of the San Miguel Corporation, a large state-controlled conglomerate, but replaced him with his archenemy Aquilino Pimentel. The flip side of her fidelity is inflexibility. "I have a long memory...
...begin in that region, but political touts say that Eastern Europe is the horse to watch. The Soviets simply do not have the resources to woo Latin American and African countries and at the same time keep their grip on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. Britain, whose imperial eye took in much of the world a hundred years ago, now struggles with a crippled economy -- a chastening lesson here. Daunting to think that by the time you receive this, the geometry of wealth and power will have expanded to several planets. We have more than we can handle...
Remarkably, Eisenstaedt is only now receiving his first retrospective, "Eisie at 88," an engrossing exhibit of 125 photographs at Manhattan's International Center of Photography. The show brings back the prewar pictures that provided the world with its first evidence of his acute and mostly cheerful eye: an imperturbable waiter on ice skates, Marlene Dietrich in a top hat, but also the vulpine stare of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. It proceeds into the years when Eisenstaedt became a legend on the staff of LIFE, where he served from the first issue, contributing thousands of pictures and 92 covers...