Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little later moved to the blue-collar suburb of Clawson, Michigan. To make ends meet, Les worked 12 to 16 hours a day. Every morning Sue would meet friends for breakfast at the Kresge coffee shop nearby, then set out on her route as an Avon Lady. Since her eyesight prevented her from getting a driver's license, she rode a little Amigo scooter. "We were always telling her, 'God, would you slow that thing down?' " says Mary. Sue's customers made their own change. She hooked rugs and played bingo and, by general consensus, spoiled little Danny. Every Sunday...
...raised in a well-to-do bourgeois family, began as an absurdist playwright in the style of Ionesco or Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist state fell away in November...
...also soon aid scientists in solving a number of historical mysteries. Among them: whether the man who drowned in Argentina in 1979 really was Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, and whether Abraham Lincoln suffered from Marfan's syndrome, an inherited disease characterized by gangly limbs, poor eyesight and a weak heart. "The applications of this technology are literally as wide as your imagination!" exclaims University of Virginia geneticist Dr. Thaddeus Kelly...
...chambers. (He once assured his friend Justice William Brennan you could learn a lot about life from soap operas.) By most accounts Marshall had spotty interest in areas of the law beyond civil rights, criminal law and free expression. But despite poor health in recent years -- his eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue in cheek, Marshall would tell his clerks, "If I die, prop me up and keep...
...people in her stories are inheritors of urbanity and indulgences. They belong to garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these...