Word: optometrist
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...fallibility in vision is the new movement of "optical art" that has sprung up across the Western world. No less a break from abstract expressionism than pop art, op art is made tantalizing, eye-teasing, even eye-smarting by visual researchers using all the ingredients of an optometrist's nightmare. Manhattan's commercial galleries are beginning to find space on their walls for it, and the Museum of Modern Art is planning an op show titled "The Responsive Eye" early next year. Says the show's organizer, Curator William Seitz: "These works exist less as objects than...
...after years of face masks that cut vision from 180° to 75° and made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair, or roughly the same as regular contacts...
Three cheers for Optometrist Merrill J. Allen [Dec. 21]. He has made clear what I tried in vain to explain to the dealer who sold me a new car last June...
...Allen, an optometrist, has made good the ethical duty of the professional auto engineers by advising the public customer that a hazard exists...
...matter how impressive the driver of a U.S. automobile looks, he sees badly. This is the dim view of Optometrist Merrill T Allen of Indiana University...