Word: vision
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...celebrities. The stars donate their old specs to LensCrafters' Give the Gift of Sight program, which in turn gives the glasses to ED BEGLEY JR., who distributes them in remote parts of Mexico. "It's a recycling program of the highest order," says actor-environmentalist Begley, whose own vision is so bad he feared--wrongly--that no one could use his old lenses. "I had so many pairs," he says, "I was the Imelda Marcos of eyeglasses." The boy pictured with Begley scored a second pair of shades--from Michael Keaton...
There, in case you've missed it, is Mann's point. Throughout the movie, he has given us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen--or an empty modern soul--waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...
...visual mental imagery activates visual areas [of the brain]," said Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn, lead researcher of the study, in an e-mail message. "And it activates them in different ways, depending on the size of the visualized object--in a manner that is similar to what occurs in vision proper [normal sight...
...great man with an even greater dream has been taken away from us. Let us hope Yitzhak Rabin's vision of peace lives on and succeeds." YUVAL SHAMIR Los Angeles...
RABIN'S ASSASSINATION ONLY CONFIRMS how necessary his vision of peace is: too many years of war and terrorism have begun to poison Israel's national spirit. The nation must have peace in this generation, or hatred will destroy the country from within. EILEEN JOYCE Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...