The promise of all that exposed flesh drove tourists and amateur lens men out in force on Saturday to witness the super-size block party that is the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, an event that dates to 1983.
Viewed with this lens, men like Donald Trump's proclamations about sexual domination (e.g. "I can do whatever I want to do") are not "just words" as he would have us believe but important ways for him to seek affirmation for what he has already likely done and what he apparently seeks to justify doing in the future.
The natural entrance of water into the seed is considered to be a strophiolar plug (Dell, 1980) or lens (Manning and Van Staden, 1987; Van Staden et al., 1989).
You can see it in the way they look right into the lens: the man working in the iron foundry far from his native Bangladesh, the African father holding his starving child, the pigeon fancier in the north of England.
The woman in pink who's on to you and your camera; the young girl and perhaps her mother - the mother staring into space, the young girl inquisitively looking toward your lens; the man with his hand against the glass, perhaps fatigued with a long commute; and the woman in the back seat looking down, perhaps reading, in almost a meditative state.
Sir Alex Ferguson wants to continue the proud tradition of French centre-halves at Old Trafford - Prunier, Silvestre, Blanc - with the signing of Lens' man-boy Raphaël Varane, who is a first-team regular at 18. It's not going to happen between you and Pippa Middleton.
Seen through this warped lens, the men who raped were engaged not only in an act of sexual transgression but also in a purifying ritual.
The novel views Marsh and Cope through the same lens, as men drawn to the West's greatest attractions its graveyards of ancient beasts because they promise both excitement and self-fulfillment.
This group of voters is crucial for the Republicans, because Mr Obama's advantage among younger women is so large, whereas married women tend to need fewer of the social protections that the Democrats offer and more of the tax benefits that Republicans favour.Ms Bratty's focus groups with swing Walmart moms reveal that they view the economy through a much more personal lens than men.
Policy-by-general is sure to create a skewed view of policy-making, since everything is likely to be viewed initially through a military lens by men trained in war, not diplomacy or peace.
