Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correspondent Roland Flamini, who was sunning himself in Malta prior to reassignment from Vienna to Chicago, responded to an urgent cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...
Much of Hitchcock's art relies on point-of-view, the director showing action as seen by the protagonist. When the audience and the characters share a single eye, audiences naturally begin to identify with the person through whose eyes they see; Hitchcock often undermines our complacency by forcing us to identify with a peeping tom (Rear Window) or murderer (Psycho). Halfway into The Bride Wore Black, the camera begins to follow a young mother and her son walking home from school; although we do not see Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) following them, the boy's glances directly into...
...Text. Three years ago, Ballet Theater's directors decided to go back to its original goals. Two of the company's finest productions have been restaged by Britain's David Blair, a one time principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, who brings to the classics an eye for dramatic consistency. "I don't think that it's very interesting or logical to have half a dozen people all standing around doing the same thing when they are supposedly individuals," he says. "We keep the choreography as it has come down to us, but we change...
...Passion. For centuries, village priests have used instructional dolls to teach children Bible stories, and Girard's collector's eye spotted one particularly vivid scene: a depiction of bearded Noah and Mrs. Noah presiding over an ark of candy-colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced...
...their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird's Eye...