Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd because they try to avoid crowds. In my day they consisted of those like my father, a neighborhood doctor, to whom the kids brought underfed cats and crippled birds, and shy Mr. Platt who led us around on Halloween, and blind Mr. Chevigny who wrote of his seeing-eye dog in a bestseller, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose, and Mr. Homer, who had a booming Bostonian voice with which he asked every child over the age of six: "When do you plan to enroll at Harvard?" On the floor above ours in No. 36 lived three spinster ladies...
Orwell's premise that in 1984 we will see our privacy invaded has come to pass. Your cover showing an eye hanging from the ceiling is similar to the security cameras in many of our public places...
...Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), the junior senator from Massachusetts, also has his eye on something hard to find in Santa's sack. "He wants peace in the Mideast and Central America," said Press Secretary Mary Ellen Thompson...
...exhibition rooms of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are bursting with lavish clothes: swift little contemporary silhouettes; magnificent ball gowns seemingly from a grander, more inert age; fantastical garments of no recognizable provenance. A few are so ugly that the eye looks away; many more are heartbreakingly lovely. They are all the work of one man: Yves Saint Laurent, 47, the most famous and influential clothing designer in the world, the king of fashion...
...Alcina Franch, professor of American anthropology at the University of Madrid, combines scholarship and a curatorial eye to produce Pre-Columbian Art (Abrams; 614 pages; $125). Franch provides a systematic survey of the once powerful civilizations that flourished in Mexico and Central and South America before 16th century Spaniards spread destruction in their frenzy for New World gold. Pre-Columbian art, the author notes, drew on a staggering variety of mythologic forms. Similarities between the designs of ancient America and Asia are not coincidental; prehistoric migrations apparently carried the seeds of cultures halfway round the world. In addition to illustrations...