Word: glared
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...American sage, Steel fortunately does not overlook either his judgemental mistakes or his personal faults. But these cannot obscure the value of his vision. Lippmann once described the room he worked in. It was sound-proof, and he kept his desk away from the windows so the noise and glare of the outside world would not disrupt his concentration. In an electronic culture where the media forms public opinion through momentary impressions, where fragmentary polls haphazardly spell out the political future, Lippmann's example of a diligent, reflective spokesman who found the time and patience to sift through complex issues...
...Jimmy Carter, who sought the office with such determination and is now fighting so furiously to retain it, has been buffeted both by circumstances beyond his control and mistakes of his own making. His once thick shock of light brown hair is gray and strawlike in the unremitting glare of television lights. His soft skin mottles when he tires. The crises, the setbacks, the crushing burdens of the office have aged him a decade in the past four years, but they have not exhausted him nor burned him out. If anything, a calm serenity in private, despite occasional public flashes...
...premature. Aside from Fyodorov's claims, which some Americans find suspect, there is little solid information on long-term benefits or problems. Though limited studies confirm that radial ks improve vision at least temporarily-although not to any great extent-many patients seem to be bothered by glare at night. Also, as much as half of the initial improvement vanishes within three months. Moreover, because the surgeon is cutting through almost nine-tenths of the cornea's thickness, there is the risk of perforation, an injury that could lead to blindness. Declaring that the operation is still experimental...
...undoubtedly a moment of liberation. One great preoccupation of late 19th century art, not only in France but across Europe, America and Australia, was light: the description of sunlight and its effects, not as an incidental portion of the painting, but as a main theme, almost a protagonist. This "glare" aesthetic, as Gerdts calls it, turned paintings into "mirrors from which dazzling sunlight is reflected back toward the spectator and upon which strong silhouettes of still clearly rendered forms may be cast...
...reason why some American impressionist canvases do not look like French impressionism is that they depicted a different kind of glare: a high-keyed white light, rather than a vibrating spectrum of color a la Monet. They were, in other words, tonal rather than coloristic impressionism. Some of the artists who had studied in Paris, notably Childe Hassam, managed to work the authentic French flicker into their surfaces without making it seem heavy handed. Hassam's view of a victory parade in 1918, The Union Jack, New York, April Morn, with its vibrant banners hanging over a throng...