Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said...
Middle East. With an eye to New York's large Jewish vote, each candidate has been trying to outdo the other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability...
...trail of the old golfers is defined by condominiums, and, on two Pro-Am days a week, wealthy hackers or executives with expense accounts pay several thousand dollars apiece to have their putts read by Sam Snead, 71. "The funny thing is," Snead says without laughing, "my right eye is gone: no depth perception at all. I have to walk to the cup to see if a putt is uphill or down...
THINK BACK to the people in your freshman seminar. How well did you ever actually know any of them? Maybe things went on in that seminar which you never even imagined. Cast your mind's eye over those impassive faces around the table, those voices making apparently innocent comments on the reading assignment. Could one of them have been--a murderer...
Four years ago this multimillion-dollar business came under the eye of the FBI, the U.S. Post Office and the Internal Revenue Service. Since then, in an investigation dubbed Dipscam, more than 20 diploma mills have been closed down and three operators have been sent to jail. Last week John Blazer pleaded guilty to mail fraud for sending out degrees from his bogus universities of East Georgia and the Bahama Islands; he received a two-year prison term. And in Arkansas last year, George C. Lyon, 79, was given a year in prison and fined $2,000 after selling...