Yesterday, reading, one had the book in front of one's eyes.

What would it be like to see mother and father, sister destroyed in front of one's eyes?

A script is written as though one has a small screen just in front of one's eyes and, I guess, should be read that way.

But the screens fanning out over an 80-degree angle or so in front of one's eyes are all too visible.

"No, I think there is only the ability to see what is in front of one's eyes.

But confirmation of something taking place right in front of one's eyes constituted positive evidence.

The idea that history can happen in front of one's eyes is one of television's most radical contributions to 20th-century consciousness, and no doubt it has helped fuel popular dissent of the kind that spread through Eastern Europe this fall like spilled gasoline.

But to have forgotten something or someone, to be unable to bring a face, a turn of a shoulder, a gesture, a tree, a flower, a contour of landscape, to know what it was like to see it but not to be able to bring that image in front of one's eyes, that sometimes causes--what shall I say?