Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents around the country, and their expenses are largely paid by Roloffs "People's Church." The girls wear uniforms and spend about four hours a day in rigorous religious training, in addition to studying academic courses that are heavily weighted with fundamentalist beliefs. TV, radio, rock music and eye makeup are banned...
...deeply affected at least three of the founders of modernism, Cėzanne, Matisse and Braque, and Van Gogh compared him to Rembrandt. What seized them in his work was not the humility of its subject matter so .much as its ambition as pure painting. The mediation between the eye and the world that Chardin's canvases propose is inexhaustible...
...like familiar faces: the patriarchal mass of his copper water urn, perched on its squat tripod; the white teapot with its rakish finial; the painted china that signaled his growing prosperity, and so on down to the last stoneware daubière, all signifying a world in which the eye could work without alienation or even strain...
...even commits that most worn-out philistine pastime, making fun of abstract art. The happy news is that such limp work forms a minority in the book. Swenson is at her best in natural, isolated settings. Her eye for detail is both loving and fierce. She runs alone on a beach...
...fiction writer, Wilson's eye was quicker than his hand. He would never equal Nabokov's magic. Yet, like most of the intellectuals of his time, Wilson was fascinated by all things Russian. He had written sympathetically about Lenin and the Soviet Revolution in To the Finland Station and had, at the time of his first meeting with Nabokov, added the aristocratic newcomer's language to his long list of merit badges...