Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strolling on London's Strand, Charlie Chaplin, 79, and Wife Oona, 43, were on a fleeting visit from Switzerland to do some shopping and see a few shows...
...these children sometimes become dwarfs is unknown. Some researchers suspect the pituitary gland, the body's governor of growth. Others believe that continuous anxiety makes a victim's digestive system less able to absorb food. Although doctors see a connection between a baby's mental state and growth, they cannot yet show how an emotional problem becomes a physical one. They do know that no matter how deprivation dwarfs thrive in a hospital, the spurt often ends when they return to the homes that started the trouble...
...family was aboard a ship. Recalls her mother, "I said to Mia, 'I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to drown Mildred.' So we theoretically put Mildred overboard into the Irish Sea, and we drowned her. We never did see Mildred again." Not in that form, anyway...
Onlookers are not always sure whether what they see is in fact either caustic or witty, and whether they ought to laugh or snarl. Claes Oldenburg dug a grave and refilled it, calling it "an underground sculpture." Paul Thek displayed a lifelike sculpture of himself as a cadaver. Christo Javacheff, 33, a be spectacled Bulgarian-born artist, expresses his wit by wrapping things-earth, hay, nudes, wheelbarrows and bottles...
Christo's other wrappings are likewise intended to lay bare an abstract truth-or truths-about the object swathed. "We never think of things in abstract terms," he observes, "because we are living persons and we see everything before us." By everything, he means surfaces, and in seeking to separate surface appearance from abstract reality, Christo often produces a work that is literally all package...