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...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 »

...Present ocular reflexes indifferent. Very strong tendinous reactions. Trembling in tongue and fingers. Hyper-emotivity. Intelligent. Able to go straight to the core of a doctrine. A didactic tone hostile to originality. Temperament of a professor. Artistic but republican mind. Possibility of a cure following a fit of modesty. His condition requires that ... he be confined in a lunatic asylum, where he can receive the treatment of which he is in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Schizomaniac in Paris | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Though Olsen & Johnson did poorly on radio in the 1930's, they are confident about their TV future because "all our gags are ocular." The audience-under constant attack from live piglets, cakes of ice, skirt-blowers, chorus girls and clowns -has always been an integral part of their act. The comics have not yet quite solved the problem of framing their wide-ranging madhouse on TV's small screen. By using five television cameras (instead of the two or three used on most TV shows), Olsen & Johnson think they will be able to get the visual intimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Laugh Factory | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...These famed couplets, to the certain knowledge of men of wide ocular experience, are as misleading as most generalizations. It has now been scientifically indicated that men definitely prefer girls, as well as men, who wear glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glasses and Passes | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...begin with it should be pointed out that even Harvard indifference will melt before the eye-filling chorines and showgirls. To a reviewer accustomed to nothing more startling than Radcliffe citizens and Vincent Club members the girls were indeed an ocular tonic. Tall and willowy, each was a tribute to Mr. Brown's excellent taste in such matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

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