Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SQUARE IN THE EYE. While too many themes and techniques are crowded within its angle of vision, Eye is alive with a phantasmagoric sense of the present. Playwright Jack Gelber's latest satiric work tickles the ribs to stab the brain...
...across, blossomed like a giant marigold to waft the 3.5-ton craft gently to sea. Some 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 53 miles from the waiting aircraft carrier Wasp, the capsule plopped into the Atlantic. McDivitt was disappointed that it was not a bull's-eye. "I wanted to land on the after-elevator of the Wasp," he said later. But he was obviously pleased to be back on earth. "Hooray! Hooray!" he cried. "We're going to the Wasp...
...Soviet view of history has always been that it exists only in the eye of the beholder-or at any rate, the holder of power. To fall from favor was to fall from sight-to become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed. But the post-Khrushchev leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin seems determined to give Russians a more honest glimpse of some tarnished heroes of the past...
...from 1576 to 1612, he was forced to cede Hungary, Moravia, Austria and Bohemia. Yet he had vision of sorts. He was an amateur astronomer, brought Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe to the Hradčany, his imperial castle in Prague, to perfect his stargazing. Rudolf's keen eye carried over into the arts, which he collected with all the magpiety of a Renaissance nobleman worshiping beauty. It was one of the world's greatest collections, but Rudolf could not hold on to it either...
Stamp, who had won plaudits for his role in Billy Budd, put Wyler to the test the first few days by walking through a retake. Wyler fixed him with an icy eye, said, "Of course, we will have to shoot that again," and Stamp settled down to deliver his best. Samantha was another story. Wyler had been smitten by her lustrous auburn hair and green eyes, even insisted on color to capture her English glow. But her experience went no further than dramatic school, some repertory Shakespeare, and small parts in a few films. The first weeks were rough going...