Word: eyeful
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Readers are not to be blamed if they keep an eye on the silverware. People who boast of their integrity bear close watching: they may not be outright thieves, but it is a good bet that their righteousness masks a shifty character. So A Friend from England is an ironic title, unless Brookner is deluding herself -- and there is not much chance of that...
Harvard Professor of Psychiatry J. Allan Hobson believes that the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage, during which a person's eyes move quickly back and forth, is the most energetic phase of our sleeping unconsciousness. During that period, the body restores its metabolic order through the process of dreaming, which is now believed to be responsibile for more than just expressing our Freudian desires, according to Hobson...
...brief point of information in connection with Melanie Williams review of Spike Lee's School Daze (March 9th): Ms. Williams' observation that Blacks have recently begun to change their eye color to "blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty" unwittingly plays into one of the subtlest games of misinformation that white racism has played on Blacks...
Obviously, the relative frequency of a given eye color varies in Black and white populations. But there is no justification for thinking that green and blue irises are somehow the exclusive property of whites...
...Sandinistas and the contras see eye to eye on very few things, but the two sides did agree that Nicaraguan Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 62, should mediate their cease-fire talks. Not anymore. After overseeing two sessions since January, Obando, a longtime critic of the regime, was abruptly dismissed last week by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 42. Though the contras objected to Obando's ouster, Ortega named his younger brother, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, 40, to head a government delegation that planned to hold the Sandinistas' first face-to-face meeting with rebel leaders this week...