Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russia House. Scarcely a dozen pages into this novel, Le Carre's twelfth, a document of potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence of the U.S.S.R. will obviously have profound effects on Western defense policies. On the other hand...
...PEOPLE tell me I'm good at visual puns. I guess that's true," says photographer Elliot Erwitt on the opening page of Personal Exposures, and he undoutedly has an eye for humor. But at the same time, Erwitt is a master in capturing the subtle tragedy in everyday life. His book is a comprehensive overview of his development, published to coincide with the world tour of an exhibition of black and white photographs...
...read like novels. It is not surprising, then, that he has given the matter some thought. For example, in The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 best-selling account of rattling through Asia, Theroux concluded that "the difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows." He added wistfully, "How sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction...
...Ministry of Agriculture says it is inundated with requests for the DOC label from food producers throughout the country. With an eye on Europe's open market of 1992, Italy's smaller producers are keen to receive the prestigious DOC symbol to help them stay competitive with multinational companies as they jostle each other for a slice of the European market...
UNLIKE the wary eye I cast on Black Greeks, I cast smiling eyes on York Eggleston's new edition of Outlook. A couple of the essays are intellectually exquisite, especially one by Kelly Mikelson, called "Mixed," about growing up as a light-skinned Black in a white foster family in Iowa. There are also several fine poems by Lisa White and Kevin Young...