Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eye to Eye. After two days of talks, Kosygin made it clear in a televised press conference that he and Ayub did not see eye to eye. "We might not be able," he said, "to meet each other all the way on all points, and perhaps cannot say that we have completely identical views on all the events going on." Unfortunately for Ayub, Kosygin is not willing to risk alienating India, an ally against the Chinese that Russia wants to pamper with every attention. At week's end he planned a detour to New Delhi on his flight home...
When the performance was over, the cheering audience was in a mood to name Bernstein an honorary citizen What he had done essentially was follow Composer Strauss's own advice to interpret Rosenkavalier "with one eye weeping and one eye winking." Thus while most Viennese conductors play down the rich orchestral part for the sake of the singers, Bernstein gave it new prominence, urging it on by jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal...
...women around him. "Georgene had brought to their affair, like a dowry of virginal lace, this lightness, this guiltlessness." Piet responds not to the excitement but to the wondrous ease of it all, the astonishing luxury of fornication with eager women behind bedroom walls apparently opaque to the fierce eye of his Calvinist...
...group tries to run away with the community's resources, or to put them to uses which are less than first priority, that group must face the consequences in the open arena of neighborhood politics. There are plenty of community groups and leaders who keep an eye on each other--just as in any other political institution...
SOME of the frottage pictures deny the technique rather than capitalize upon it. "Forest, Sun, Birds" is a lithograph-like combination of oil and frottage, Great dark shafts of stylized trees, with glimmers of yellow and blue for shadow and sun create the forest. A large blind eye and the desperate outline of a baby bird, containing a subtle light ambiguously suggests the life within the bird and a clearing in the forest...