Word: patching
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...intense vulnerability. An American mathematician, he has come with his wife Amy (Susan George) to her native village on the windy coast of Cornwall, where he hopes to spend a year doing research. He is also attempting to flee the chaotic violence of the U.S. -and to patch up an uneasy marriage. But there is to be no hiding place...
summer And in trousers with a patch an acre-wide...
Dayan has become a larger-than-life figure, and his black eye patch a cartoonists' symbol of Israeli military proficiency. The man behind the eye patch, a laconic loner, is less well known. Now a number of fresh glimpses are provided in Moshe Dayan-A Biography, a 601-page study published in Israel last week and scheduled to be issued in the U.S. by Random House next fall...
Later he told a friend: "No matter. I've lived for 26 years with two eyes and now I shall go on living with one." Nonetheless, he has never adjusted to wearing the famous black patch...
Doctors in Jerusalem, Paris and Johannesburg have failed in attempts to fit him with an artificial eye. Author Teveth says that Dayan still frets that his patch makes him look like a highwayman and sometimes frightens small children...