Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...empathy is not transmitted well on TV. "When you get past the show-biz part of it and talk about family values and American values," Strauss says, "Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo showed in his keynote speech to the convention that the Democrats can convey an uplifting vision of America: his notion is nation as family, in contrast to every...
...view that the embryo may not be fully human has been in near total eclipse. All modern Popes have opposed abortion from the instant of conception, and the Second Vatican Council termed abortion "an unspeakable crime." In recent years the church has shown a willingness to cast a fresh eye at the morality of nuclear war and capital punishment, a trend that may reinforce its desire to protect embryonic life...
...fact, from details like this, hundreds of them, passing before the subtly shaded and disciplined lens of Cinematographer Nestor Almendros' camera, an eye that never wanders toward pure realism or toward sentimentality either, that Places in the Heart derives much of its strength. The dust rising from the wheels of a hurrying flivver, the chilly darkness of a cavernous bank, the way the early morning sun strikes a field of cotton, and the camera's simple crane up to reveal the immensity of the field and of the task before the little band of pickers toiling...
...University's shoddy treatment of Black Rock over the last 15 years--including efforts to dump the property entirely--fall to offer reassurance that their explanation is entirely on the level. The forest was the source of another major controversy in 1973 when Consolidated Edison, which had had its eye on the forest since the mid-1960s, unsuccessfully sought to buy and flood 340 acres of Black Rock as part of the later abandoned Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold and, in January 1973, which drew...
...been said that he wanted to deride pornomania, that he gave an accurate reading of it (one reduced to its bare bones), and that he has succeeded since these bones, clinging to one another in a puzzling geometrical arrangement, suddenly−and eerily−leap into the eye of the beholder like a modern dance of death with gamboling, spawning skeletons...