Word: squints
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...king's ransom besides) in the null by leading the best swing band in history. Instead of the cream-puff stuff fashionable bands were spooning out, Benny had his men play the jive they lived for. Dragging players came to fear Benny's long, poker-faced squint aimed at them over the tops of his glasses. They called it simply "The Ray." He rehearsed them until they swung as one-a writhing, flashing, soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they...
Rather than incur these costs, students often neglect the examination and squint their way through to summer vacation where costs may be transferred to the family rather than college budget. While hesitancy may show financial acumen, it can wreak havoc with the eyes...
Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...good for those who must grind out three hours worth of knowledge because the light, inadequate to begin with, creates shadows that make it impossible to see what one is writing. Adding to the difficulty is the lit-up stage which forces the examgoer to squint every time he looks...
...best is Cranach's sketch of Philip, Duke of Pomerania, a picture once attributed (along with several other Cranachs) to Albrecht Dürer, one of history's greatest draftsmen. Cranach dramatized details of character that a candid camera might have caught: the fierce brow, the thoughtful squint, the sad, confident mouth...