Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's style is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in keen focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...
...petition to a congressional hearing, won plenty of press coverage that helped secure a hefty appropriation for the federal school-lunch program. But the chief attention getters are the proliferating newspaper advertisements on such issues as nuclear disarmament, civil rights and Viet Nam. The ads, bearing massed names in eye-straining type, are sponsored by organizations that seem almost ritualistically to include the tag ad hoc in their titles, such as the Ad Hoc Committee of Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam. Many of them are prepared by advertising-agency volunteers, notably those from Doyle Dane Bernbach, who helped develop...
...story. One man equipped with a pocket or lapel camera will be able to replace five. "He won't attract attention," says Cronkite. "He won't make news by just being there. A source will talk more easily when the lights and the big eye...
...Sarah, the ancient barren pair who crawl abed hopefully cooing Songs of Solomon. Peter O'Toole, as three Angels of the Lord, smites Sodom in triplicate, terrorizing hordes of extras, who, as usual, do their best to make transcendental evil shine through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact, but a bouncing ball to help the audience pray along. Better read The Book...
Until the moment of revelation, in fact, Kamensky remains a pale figure, repeatedly upstaged by other characters and by Dame Rebecca herself, whose keen eye for detail alights frequently on the tableaux of fin-de-siecle Europe and the Byzantine complexities of expatriate Russian life...