Word: nearsightedness
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Sooner or later we all discover that our arms just aren't long enough to read anymore. You know the problem. You can't focus on the small type in books and magazines and on aspirin bottles at your normal reading distance, and so you start moving the print farther...
Welty's other pieces featured in the show seem vastly disconnected from her work with twist-ties. Medical charts covered in Wite-Out, Manila-Out, glue and odd colored dots line one wall, faintly resembling Mondrian paintings as viewed by a tremendously nearsighted museum-goer. The charts, while each is...
That is the spirit of American idealism when it gets into the woods: noisy inaccuracy and ethical contradiction coexisting with high principles - myopia (Roosevelt was incredibly nearsighted) and great vision.
Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of...
It was a chilly March day, the sky ash colored, moist with drizzle. Outside the Washington Hilton Hotel sat a long line of black cars and military vehicles, a commonplace scene in the nation's capital. At about two o'clock, the President of the U.S. walked out from his...