Word: eyesight
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...chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating matters is the fact that physiological aging varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging: "One may be at different 'ages' at one and the same time in terms of mental capacity, physical health, endurance, creativity and emotions...
THIS DEVOTION to cerebral abstraction and the life of the studio became increasingly hardened as Degas moved past his fiftieth year and turned more bitter and misanthropic. His eyesight was failing, and his inability to work in less than full light led him to turn increasingly to sculpture. Profound disillusionment and contempt for much of life set in; along with his love of setting mental problems for himself through his art, this frustration suggests some personal reasons for the effect that most of these bronzes produce. The awkward, tortured poses both challenged Degas as master of design and visually expressed...
...best show in town-also rated PG was, as usual, Meany himself, 82, who has been the pre-eminent U.S. labor figure since the 1960s. Bothered by an old hip ailment, he needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
...Accordingly, they have been backing away for some time from such offensive terminology as mekura no kojiki (blind beggar) and bik-ko no kojiki (lame beggar) in their translations of the Italian tale. Nowadays the two villains are usually referred to in Japanese translations as "a cat with bad eyesight" and "a fox with weak legs...
...eyesight was bad, but he would not wear glasses. He used a number of magnifying glasses that he called "my peep-stones," one of which had a battery-powered light for use when the dim-lit bedroom was too dark. Except for rare occasions, he spurned his collection of hearing devices. "He could understand if you stood face to face and talked loudly," Stewart says. "But often he would say, 'Aw shit, write...