Word: squinting
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...must work fast. In the morning the women smile; they age with the day. Every line deepens until, when a woman goes home, she looks and feels ten years older. In well-lit factories eyes squint and blur. The glaring electric light neutralizes everything...
More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...
...example, a group of servicemen, in one "off-stage" sequence, squint through the camera lights as they try to outdo each other in telling Ms. Fonda how fucked-up the service already is. One soldier gripes to the camera as he stands quite conveniently in front of a Coke sign, another in front of an advertisement for Patton. A reading of largely symbolic demands by some servicemen at one base literally becomes a part of the night's performance. Even so, the show seems to have been a real outlet of grievances for Army personnel; the film, however, is closed...
...They shined their big spotlight on him, and his big ol' red beery eyeballs take a squint at the situation and don't like what they see. Like an armadillo rooted out at night, cross as hell...
...split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with the older Praja Socialist Party). Asked why hejoined so bizarre a grouping, Swatantra Boss M.R. ("Mi-noo") Masani replied by quoting a local proverb: ''In a family a squint-eyed uncle is better than no uncle...