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For Your Eyes Only - definition of For Your Eyes Only in Encyclopedia (1840 words) |
 | The title story of the collection lent its name to the twelfth James Bond film, which was released in 1981 and was the fifth film to star Roger Moore as the suave and sophisticated British Secret Service agent. |
 | The illustrated adaptation of "For Your Eyes Only" was published from September 11 to December 9, 1961, again adapted by Gummidge and McClusky. |
 | The film's main poster artwork, showcasing a model in shorts holding a crossbow with Bond framed between her long legs, was controversial in some parts of the world, with reports of the artwork being altered to remove what was considered indecent exposure. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature (14989 words) |
 | Ronsard was not only, as was said long ago of him, the marvelous workmen of little pieces, of sonnets and tiny odes; in brilliancy of imagination, in the gift for inventing new rhymes, he is one of the greatest poets known to French literature. |
 | The rise of a cultured class, and of its life of refinement, which took place during the end of the reign of Henry IV, is one of the striking facts of the first half of the seventeenth century. |
 | However that may be, its influence was considerable; it served as a rallying-point for the philosophers, and by acting on public opinion, as Diderot had intended, came to "change the common way of thinking". |