Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisory council" that will govern until elections can be held. But that session now seems in doubt since Alister Mclntyre, the Grenadian economist appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to head the council, has fallen ill. He resigned his new post, and reportedly entered a Geneva hospital for eye surgery...
...friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says. "He's sane and has a crazy sense of humor...
...foreign painter alive today is more genuinely popular in America than Hockney. Certainly none has achieved such popularity with less compromise in the essential quality of his work. That work has its ups and downs, like any other oeuvre, but one would need a flint heart and a glass eye to resent Hockney's success. The bleached-blond thatch, the square face like that of a cubified owl, the schoolboy spectacles, the togs (blazers, cricket caps, candy-striped odd socks) that suggest the house captain of some imaginary...
...Korean ministers and aides in Burms. And of course the overall themes must have been defense and trade. Why these topics have become increasingly important to America, and why the Korean dilemma cannot be solved with easy theories of "containment," are questions that have to be considered with an eye to history...
...Robison writes the occasional Salingeresque sentence ("One morning I was fixing cinammon toast of something and I had to practically he on the counter to keep from going into a complete faint") such puppyish exaggeration is rare. Like Ann Beattie and Frederick Barthelme, she casts a cold and detached eye on her characters, and tends to write spare prose about her spare people. People, what's more, who are distanced from their emotions. We see them the outside, largely through dialogue and physical movements. Even when the story is told in the first person. Robison's method relies more...