Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremists freed Father Jenco at this time? Because of his deteriorating health, said the kidnapers, who knew of his heart condition and an eye infection caused by his blindfolds and presumably would not have wanted to be held responsible in the event of his death. William Casey, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, visited Damascus recently, but it was unclear whether this had anything to do with the priest's release. Jenco himself also spoke of the "religious factor," meaning the efforts of Terry Waite and other churchmen on behalf of the hostages. The indefatigable Waite, tight-lipped...
Their problem was framing a pictorial language to describe rapid stimulus and movement. They came up with an amalgam of pointillism, cubism and photography. Picasso and Braque had built cubism on the scrutiny of a single object from multiple viewpoints: the table stood still, the eye moved. In futurism, the eye is fixed and the object moves, but it is still the basic vocabulary of cubism -- fragmented and overlapping planes -- that tells us so. Carra, Boccioni and, above all, Balla prized the photographs of sequential movement taken by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Some of Balla's own paintings...
...door to the temple, one woman rushed to her feet and pulled us inside. We were seated at the front before the dancers, and she quickly brought us a pot of strong Chinese tea, and a plate of roasted nuts and dried seaweed. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the two freaks with the yellow hair, and then one of the dancers took my hand and beckoned for me to dance with her. Holding hands, I copied her steps: dancing with bent knee, flexed feet and palms, the effect was of marionettes courting each other with jerky movements. Then...
...depends on what is meant by reality. In a dictatorship allergic to cameras and hostile to free reporting, even to show "ordinary life" often requires Soviet permission, and vetting of who is shown. Print journalists manage to suggest these limitations in what they write. But on the screen the eye sees an irrefutable "reality" that compellingly overrides whatever the ear is being told. This is what makes television so powerful, and on occasion so worrisome. As shown, Rita Tikhonova, the model 21-year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication...
...pilot that he was coming in a little high on final approach to Mojave Airport, 75 miles north of Los Angeles. But Dick Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record...