Word: eyesight
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...Many elderly women fail to perform breast self-exams because of arthritis, failing eyesight or loss of feeling in the fingers. Now a researcher has developed an alternative self-exam: the woman lies down and uses the palm of her hand to sweep over the breast, a more comfortable technique than the usual one of standing in front of a mirror and using the fingertips on the breast. In addition, women with poor eyesight can use a hand-held magnifying mirror to look for lumps...
This universal door opens into a painful reality. Suffering from AIDS and faced with the cruel absurdity of losing his eyesight, Jarman has been reduced to perceiving shadows moving in a sea of blue. Visually, the film forces the viewer to asume the director's perspective...
...fact, said ASA administrator Daniel Goldin, presenting the first images from the born-again telescope at a press conference last week, "it's better than new. The telescope now gathers light four times as efficiently as it did before the repairs." Its eyesight is so sharp, say scientists, that if it were sitting in Washington, it could spot a firefly in Tokyo...
...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...