Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know who wears glasses wears them because, after years of trying to find "fashion" frames to fit our faces, they have surrendered. They are happy to wear these at best non-existent and at worst ugly face braces because they are better than trying and failing to find flattering eye wear...
...been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story and serve a dual function...
Serve art and scrounge for money. Exploit talent, but be fair. Serve up the pyrotechnics, but keep an eye on all those overstressed knees and feet. It isn't easy to run a ballet company...
...during adolescence. There is, of course, the need to develop perfection of technique. Add to that the care of one's body, the avoidance of drugs and drink, rent payment and roommate control. Most important, however, is the reinvention of oneself as an alluring theatrical image that rewards the eye -- and blinds it to the charms of the next performer in line...
...Nabisco, the benefits of LBOs were hardly lost on Johnson. Born in Winnipeg, Man., he had parlayed a keen eye for a deal and the nerves of a gunslinger into the top job at three major corporations. He was president of Standard Brands, the producer of Planters nuts and Baby Ruth candy bars, when it merged with Nabisco in 1981. Four years later, as Nabisco's president, Johnson sold out to RJR Reynolds for $4.9 billion and soon became president of the merged company. After adding the title of chief executive officer in 1987, he swiftly moved RJR Nabisco headquarters...