Word: bloodshot
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...rolled her bloodshot eyes, her quivering cheeks
...President's Inauguration, the attempted assassination, and his Thanksgiving at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara. "Reagan keeps a civilized 9-to-5 schedule and doesn't take off at the drop of a hat to strange places around the world," says Brew. "His aides may have bloodshot eyes, drawn faces and jangled nerves, but Reagan always looks as if he just stepped out of a hot bath...
...Guston's figurative work that is not deliberate, and no clumsiness that is not feigned? Between the early and the late '70s the scope of his vision and the resonance of his images deepened steadily; those phalanxes of knobby knees and boots like Uccello horseshoes, those bloodshot cyclopean eyes and gut piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait?) violently compressed into an eye and a chin prickled with...
...tell us that we're in The Dark Ages ("The Land was divided and with a King.") we're thrust into a bloody battle between small armies of knights on horseback. Their armor splattered with blood and mud, they fight against the background of a bright orange sky, the bloodshot sun hanging low. The strange atmosphere of unreality intensifies with the entrance of Merlin (Nicol Williamson) who emerges from the mist covered in black robes, his head adorned with a glistening silver skull cap. Uther (Gabriel Byrne), boldest of the knights--soon-to-be father of Arthur--hacks through...
...Stuart and Elaine at Brigham's. Flaine had just sent her conclusion to a typist. She was talking in monosyllables, her eves bloodshot and dazed, since the effects of the coffee and speed she'd been downing all weekend were just beginning to wear off. Heather envied her: She had to trudge back to Littauer, and Flaine could go to sleep. Heather would have givern her first-born for six hours of sleep. It was the evening and the morning of the fourth all-nighter...