Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make-believe world of the penny arcade, pinball was once a game without peer. For a teen-ager with a pocketful of dimes, there was no better way to while away idle hours than maneuvering a steel ball through a maze of obstacles, while lights blinked and a noisy digital Scoreboard recorded points with a distinctive bong. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race...
...faces peer out from across four decades: a baleful Hitler brooding over his destiny, a grinning Goebbels with his new bride, slinky Fräulein in satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores...
...other works of art, except the cathedrals for which they were sometimes woven, absorbed so much collective labor: to see why, one has only to peer at the density of stitching in one square inch of a tapestry and reflect on the time needed to work a surface that might extend for hundreds of square yards. One man could illuminate a Book of Hours. But the fabrication of a hanging might be farmed out among dozens of looms under the supervision of a master weaver. The fact that one of these entrepreneurs, Nicolas Bataille, who took more than three years...
...Professional Standard Review Organization, as mandated by federal law, is a serious intrusion into the patient-doctor relationship. With peer review as the norm, some of the less expert medical practitioners may be selected out. But more important, the creative, humanistic, unorthodox physician will be selected out. For years, unofficial peer consensus militated against legalized abortion, home delivery, natural childbirth and the husband's presence in the delivery room...
...hospitals where surgery is performed, perhaps 4,500 have a watchdog peer review or "tissue committee." If an undue proportion of the organs removed by a surgeon are found healthy, he gets rapped over the knuckles and is expected to reform. But too many tissue committees are far too lenient. Knowing the imprecision of medicine and their own fallibility, the members are apt to say "There but for the grace of God go I," and let the matter drop...