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Word: visual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece suggests ancient Aztec monuments; it might be more powerful if constructed of weathered stone rather than lumberyard wood. Miss, like many intellectually oriented artists during the sixties, gives priority to idea over aesthetic. In failing to point up the qualities of her sculpture, Miss deprives her pieces of visual and emotional richness...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Trompe L'Oeil | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

...been done in the U.S., but the procedure, which takes between 15 and 45 minutes and can be performed under local anesthesia, is so simple its popularity is increasing among doctors and patients alike. Some people, like pilots, policemen and firemen, are clamoring for the surgery to pass required visual tests. Others are seeking it for reasons of vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaping Up the Blurry Eye | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...poor Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks to life when Laura falls in with-and into heroine-worshiping love with-Evelyn (Hilary Ryan), a beautiful, dark-eyed senior classwoman who is everything Laura hopes to become. In one lovely scene, Evelyn beckons the girl to join her in bed. They pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up Under | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Recorded during a live performance in Providence, the tape is, in fact, a visual précis of One for the Road. Good shooting, good sound and dexterous editing (supervised by Ray Davies) make it not so much a companion to the record as a necessary adjunct: music that you can see. There could be a lot more of it to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wrinkles from the Kinks | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...minutes of instruction. They return for the offertory, prayer of consecration and Communion. "Being included," Koch insists, "teaches the children more than 10,000 Sunday school lessons could." Koch's program, like the practice of the thriving Baptist Sunday schools, seems to bear out one fact: lesson plans, visual aids, outings are all well and good, but Sunday schools cannot flourish if parents do not go to church with their children. Worship has to be a family experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of Raikes and Ragamuffins | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

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