Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evacuated when 15 cars of a 44-car transport train derailed, causing a tanker filled with phosphorus to explode and spew a plume of noxious white smoke over the small city (pop. 18,000) ten miles southwest of Dayton. Local hospitals treated some 300 people for respiratory problems and eye irritations...
...Robards (Anatomy of an Illness), or such authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike and Eudora Welty, reading from their own works. Even Lee Iacocca, Rosalynn Carter and Mike Wallace have recently gone from the word processor to the microphone. It is as ^ if, after decades of attention to the eye in TV, films and videocassettes, the ear has been rediscovered...
...disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case is a twelve-year, $162 million effort to control the black fly in West Africa. That has saved about 3.5 million children from possible blindness caused by an insect-carried eye disease...
...country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions policy, it received an angry retort from the Deputy Information Minister, Louis Nel. The real problem, said the peppery Nel, was that "most foreign journalists have consistently misrepresented South Africa abroad by turning a blind eye to constructive developments...
...seem drier and duller than technicolor. It's an even stranger choice for a first time director like Prince. In black and white there's nowhere to hide--you have to get the staging just right, the shadows to fall just so. Since there's less to confuse the eye and the mind, the viewer can really concentrate on the aesthetic qualities of the movie...