Word: nearsightedness
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Betty prevailed on Tuesday, however, as the efficient Ford floor command passed the signal and delegates were ready with hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the...
On the podium, Solti defies a current vogue: he regularly conducts from a score. That any number of young and not-so-young conductors think they must conduct from memory, he blames on Toscanini: "Why did Toscanini conduct from memory? Because he was nearsighted. Of course, he had that fabulous...
He was fitted with glasses at the age of four, and he suggests that poor eyesight had something to do with his preference for thinking in wholes rather than parts. In any case, the career that follows is a classic case of a man of long vision in a nearsighted...
As one of the most successful magazines ever published, Playboy has inevitably inspired imitation. The newest entrant in the flesh-fun-fashion field, however, brings the flattery of emulation to the border of plagiarism. Gallery, which went on sale last week, carries a cover slug that is identical in arrangement...