Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovers of the drug--called oculinum--which is used to paralyzes eye muscles, have decided to end production because they said insurance costs are too high. Alan B. Scott, the drug's sole producer, was ordered by the Smith-Kettlewell Research Foundation, which funds his work, to stop distrubiting the drug because it was unable to obtain liability insurance...
...have the drug unavailable is a tragedy," said Dr. Gary E. Borodic of the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary...
Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...
...cabin of the shrimp boat, bound for the Gulf of Mexico, are these: one Sunbeam Master Chef charcoal grill, three spatulas hanging from eye hooks, a slicker, half a dozen greasy life jackets, a pan full of plastic dishes, a box of Zatarain's crab boil (since 1889), a bottle of Hunt's All Natural barbecue sauce, a bottle of Seven Seas Viva Italian dressing, a bottle of Formula 409 all-purpose cleaner, a can of Bush's Best whole-kernel golden corn, a can of Shurfine early harvest sweet peas, a can of La Choy meatless chow mein...
...render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward or disguised. The second, and by far more subtle, is to suggest the movement of the artist's eye as it scans and scrutinizes, to put together (as in cubism) the scene and the process of seeing it. This is antiphotographic, opposed to the convention of the single, fixed view. In theory at least, cubism built time into painting...