Word: pupills
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...pupil also grows smaller when the eye scans something at short range, expands when the eye looks at distant objects...
...DeWitt essayed the unusual operation to give four-year-old Clare Brett a perfect pupil. With equipment which he declared did not exist until three years ago, and which he would not describe, Dr. DeWitt mended the child's iris...
...iris is a delicate, loosely meshed mat of tiny blood vessels, nerves, muscles and flimsy connective tissue. A circular system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris to the pupil are muscles which draw the pupil open in dull light, like the pull cords of a curtain...
...fragile a fabric of vessels, nerves and muscles, it is difficult to hold the sutures with which an eye surgeon might attempt to mend a tear. Ordinarily the surgeon contents himself with cutting off the loosened bits of iris and guarding the eye against infection. This leaves the pupil a jagged hole, which is more fascinating than ugly...
...heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated fresh air and getting up before noon...