Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interaction with the modern world: the $70 million Hollywood movie Seven Years in Tibet and Martin Scorsese's remarkable new film, Kundun, both of which tell the story of his early life. Sitting cross-legged in his armchair, rocking back and forth as he spoke and always keeping an eye out to make sure my cup of tea was full, the famously accessible doctor of metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community and the new pressures of his spotlighted life. Accepting donations from Shoko Asahara...
...Dick and Harry who happens along. Take the jolly receptionist in our dentist's office, who started showing up Dec. 1 dressed as a living gift to all humankind, with a huge red bow on the top of her head, ornamental-ball earrings and a scrub shirt in an eye-catching teddy-bear-and-wreath print. So what's my Christmas statement going to be? A simple Santa hat and sequined tree-pin combo, or should I go whole hog with the fluorescent Rudolph sweatshirt and a crown of rubber reindeer antlers...
...pristine camera work and the euphoric drone of Philip Glass's score, Scorsese devises a poem of textures and silences. Visions, nightmares and history blend in a tapestry as subtle as the Tibetans' gorgeous mandalas of sand. For some, Kundun will be a slog. For the open mind and eye, though, this is rapture in pictures...
DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...
...Orrin Hatch, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee that was delaying Lee's confirmation, had left the door open for such a move on Sunday, calling it "not as much of a finger in the eye" for a Senate that dislikes Lee's steadfast support of affirmative action...