Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creators had him fly to Berchtesgaden and Moscow and haul both Hitler and Stalin before a League of Nations tribunal in Geneva. Believers in verisimilitude began wondering how Superman avoided getting drafted. Simple. Clark Kent patriotically went to take his physical exam, but when he looked at the eye chart, his X-ray vision caused him to read figures from a chart in the next room. He was rated...
When you touch me with your eye...
Gravitas is a mystery, just as the presidency itself is something of a mystery. Gravitas is a secret of character and grasp and experience, a force in the eye, the voice, the bearing. Sometimes -- as with, say, Winston Churchill -- it announces itself as eloquence, and sometimes it proclaims itself as a silence, a suspension full of either menace or Zen. The Japanese believe a man's gravitas emanates from densities of the unspoken...
...mining and retailing. As the Holmes a Court companies took losses on these investments, their own shares collapsed as well. The stock-market value of the Holmes a Court corporations plunged from $4.1 billion to $850 million. "We found ourselves," he told Bell Group shareholders last December, "in the eye of the cyclone...
...Hunched over a swath of darkened and decomposing parchment with a powerful magnifying glass, they were barely able to discern a single letter. But that night, as they reviewed photo negatives still wet from the developing tank, their luck changed dramatically. Passages that had been invisible to the naked eye jumped out at them from the film. "It was a moment of exploding consciousness," recalls James Charlesworth, professor of New Testament languages at Princeton Theological Seminary. "You dare not hope, and then -- bingo! -- it springs into view. Whole sentences, paragraphs. Right from the time of Jesus...