Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's a VCR monitor, not a television set," Fisher points out emphatically. "I like to watch movies at night after dinner now that I can't get out much." Failing eyesight, severe arthritis and other infirmities are about the only limitations she accepts, and then only because she must. It is hard to reconcile the hands so stiff they can no longer type and the slow movement across the room with the gleam of the gray-green eyes, the brightly lipsticked smile, the clear voice and, most of all, the feisty opinions...
...sometimes held to lack an autograph of his own, an unmistakable style in the manner of Andre Kertesz or W. Eugene Smith. But the signature his work bears is more a matter of spirit than style, an embrace of life's episodes that is as benign and enveloping as eyesight itself. His 1963 picture of children watching a puppet show in Paris is both the consummate example of his close-in approach and the best metaphor for his own excitement in seeing...
...like to take Mr. Goldfarb home with me tomorrow," said Hammer. Replied Dobrynin: "That's impossible." Said Hammer: "Anatoly, I'm accustomed to doing the impossible." Later, Dobrynin telephoned Hammer to say, "Permission granted." Hammer rushed to tell Goldfarb, who was in a hospital with multiple ailments, including failing eyesight, diabetes and a gangrenous leg. But Goldfarb refused to leave without his wife Cecilia. Told this by Hammer, Dobrynin said that she could emigrate...
While Akira Kurosawa was waiting around for international moneymen to cough up the money for his ultimate production--an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear--he sketched and painted scenes, a practice called "storyboarding." Though Kurosawa's eyesight is failing, he still managed to create dramatically posed illustrations that assault the eyes like a rabid ronin...
...years. His crime: withholding information from an investigating team regarding Billig's competence. Perhaps because the Navy has difficulty attracting experienced surgeons (their average pay is $70,000, vs. nearly $240,000 in private practice), it apparently had decided to overlook Billig's poor record and his poor eyesight...