Word: vision
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House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino has introduced a bill mandating a waiting period. The NRA opposes it, claiming that the public would be better served by McClure-Volkmer. As the NRA applies pressure to representatives, let us hope that congressmen have the courage and vision to accept the NRA for what it is--a narrow special interest which seeks to benefit gun dealers and users with little regard for the public welfare...
...cousin complain that their room lacks a view of the Arno River, George's father (Denholm Elliott) offers to exchange the two ladies' rooms for his and his son's, which do possess the coveted perspective. Such an amenity is useless to him, he explains, for "my vision is within." So is that of his son, who is perhaps overly introspective, a characteristic telegraphed by his habit of constantly drawing question marks everywhere...
...focus the question by meditating upon the 2,700 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos left behind in Malacanang Palace. A person's vision may cloud a little as he tries to peer into the shadows of Swiss bank vaults or into the double-bottomed luggage of the Marcos real estate deals. But the image of the 5,400 shoes of Imelda Marcos makes the metaphysics vivid...
...adaptation of the James Purdy novel Eustace Chisholm and the Works that featured a graphic abortion and an unabashed homosexual sensibility. When the board ousted him, the actors boycotted and led a community protest. The upshot was that Hall "fired" the board, replacing them with backers of his vision...
With O'Keeffe, vision preceded style, and her works escape the provincial air that clings to some early American modernism ("Colonial Cubism," in Stuart Davis' mordant phrase). Her main stylistic affinities are less with other American or European painting than with photography: the work of Stieglitz, but especially of her friends Paul Strand and Edward Weston, obsessed with sharp focus, clear emblematic shapes of stone, bone and weathered root, the far telescoped into the near. Her America was a more stripped, fundamental and varied place than anything one can find in "regional" painting of the '30s. She made indelible images...