Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manufacturers have replied that they are indeed concerned about visual fatigue and have made suggestions on how to modify environmental conditions like glare. Until employers agree to institute those changes, however, some VDT users may just have to squint and bear...
...forgers' skills, sharpened by greed, malice, political zeal or simply the sheer joy of confounding learned scholars or esteemed institutions, have called into being an opposing set of skills: those of the patient, persistent document sleuths, who squint through magnifying glasses and microscopes at each potential telltale squiggle on yellowed pages or pristine documents in countless offices, from police station houses to great universities and national archives...
...strongest roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...
...Nicaraguans building a proportionally large army, but they are also jogging in the same direction as the Cubans. Except for rather doubtful protestations from the Sandinistas that "not a single foreign soldier" serves in their nation, nobody bothered to challenge the Administration's information. After all, if you squint hard, those specks could be tanks, and it would make some sense if Cuba, proud armorer of Third World leftists, were supplying them...
...took McKellen perhaps ten seconds to absorb all this. It took him an additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play...