Word: kavner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optometrists -- specialists who examine eyes and prescribe corrective lenses -- offer some form of eye-improvement therapy, also called vision training. The premise is simple: while eyesight is largely determined by genetics, seeing is an acquired skill, developed through practice, much like walking or swimming. Says Richard Kavner, a New York City optometrist: "The goal is to improve faulty connections between the brain and eye muscle." Common exercises include walking on a balance beam while reading a chart, completing connect-the-dot pictures and touching points in patterns that are flashed rapidly on a screen. Such training is designed to enhance...
...talented actress with whom Allen is not sleeping, but who nevertheless appears in this film, is Julie Kavner, best known to the public as Brenda Morganstern of TV's Rhoda...
...Recently Kavner, who plays Joe's mother in Radio Days, made an appearance at a publicity luncheon in Boston, where she described working for a man who has long been an idol of hers...