Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid undue capitals punishment, Brazilians have now started a trend toward spelling out the letters. Thus a member of the UDN party becomes a Udenist. For other parties, it takes sharp eyesight, not to mention keen political insight, to determine whether a politician is a Pecebist, Pedecist, Pessebist, Pessedist, Pessepist, Pessetist, Petebist or Petenist. And that, son, is not much...
...Tate's keepers, or administrators, simply had to muddle through, and they did so brilliantly. By watching their purse, they developed shrewd eyesight. Two Henry Moore drawings that cost a paltry $18 apiece in the early 1940s would now fetch a hundred times that; two Giacometti oils, bought for $112 and $168, are now worth around $25,000 apiece...
...behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize with a wry line in her husband's notebook: "Love lives on propinquity, but dies of contact...
...know then he later learned as house guest of the Lewises at Barnard, Vt., and from the Dorothy Thompson papers at Syracuse University. "Jimmy" Sheean was "too pretty" and had "a wet lower lip," his friend Dorothy noted in her diary, but there was nothing the matter with his eyesight; his book about the private and public life of Dorothy and "Red" Lewis is an extraordinary thing. Involving as it does the privacy of two people recently dead and known to thousands of others who are still living, it has an awful fascination...
Three Fables of Love differs from Bocaccio 70 in about the same way that Leslie Caron differs from Sophia Loren. This new string of romantic vignettes is less gaudy than its ancestor, but the quality and themes are nearly identical. If you have good eyesight and don't search for symbolism, Three Fables will give you an Eisenhower dollar's worth of entertainment...