Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's Jean-Jacques Lebel strolls through the crowd, inviting each spectator to close one eye. He holds up a pornographic picture to the other eye, strokes the closed eye with a feather, then invites the spectator to change eyes, holds up a postcard of Queen Elizabeth, and strokes the closed eye with a carrot. "Beautiful, Jean-Jacques," murmur the spectators...
There is no doubt that the King and the Premier see eye to eye on many issues. Stephanopoulos relies heavily on Constantine to keep the right-wing National Radical "Union Party, which supplies the bulk of his parliamentary votes, in line behind him-and thereby postpone the need for a general election, which need not, by law, be held before February 1968. On the other hand, Constantine clearly leaves the day-to-day business of governing to Stephanopoulos and his ministers, and felt secure enough on his throne to leave the country this summer for a holiday of yachting...
...designed the sets and costumes and directed the whole shebang. His scenery was framed and overhung with scrims that looked like free-form Venetian blinds-around and through which appeared massed armies, a massive moon, a massive sphinx, a massive pyramid, a massive throne, and just about every other eye popper that Cecil B. de Zeffirelli could imagine, not forgetting three live horses, three live goats, one live camel, and three fake asps...
...should retire, he eases the pain with a line he has polished to perfection: "Wouldn't you rather have your public say, 'Already?' than 'At last!' " Of course, if the singer won't take the hint, Bing will fire him without batting an eye...
Despite these demerits, Vogel & Co. presented a provocative cinematic circus. There were eye-grabbing sideshows enlivened by the thumps and grinds of U.S. independent film makers: exhibitions of Underground Cinema, Direct Cinema, and something the Marshall McLuhanatics call Expanded Cinema or Intermedia Kinetic Environment (IKE)-a sort of slap-happening half on and half off the screen. For movie goers who did not particularly like IKE, there was periodic excitement in the main tent. Seventeen nations were represented in a program that included ten or a dozen superb shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident...