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Word: ocular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compared to other names in my files, Silberbauer is a nobody, a zero." Other names in Wiesenthal's at-large list go far beyond zero. They include Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's geneticist, who tried to turn the world blue-eyed for Aryanism by means of painful ocular injections; he is now reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive but doing quite nicely in Brazil. Says Wiesenthal with mock resignation: "No country will want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intercontinental Op | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...this outing, Bette reports in a severe uniform, her brows beetled, her mouth a crumpled rose. Her celebrated ocular choreography is directed mostly toward Joey (craftily played by Movie Newcomer William Dix), an incorrigible ten-year-old who has been sent away for therapy after drowning his little sister in the bath. Though Joey claims he didn't do it, he is the kind of brat whose idea of fun is to practice tying hangman's knots. The lad returns home, alas, with one of his psychoses analyzed as "an inborn antipathy toward middle-aged females." Soon poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bette Meets Boy | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Another survey of modern painting, with the usual fine color plates and the customary inescapable fault: such a book, of course, will be leafed through oftener than it is read, and leafing through a collection containing one Klee, one Dali, one Pollock, and so on, can lead only to ocular indigestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRESENTATION PIECES | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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