Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boundaries of where the techniques of film-making has been taken. He employs unusual lighting, off-kilter camera angles, animation and special computer effects which distort the stills. He uses clips from old films one after another in odd places: westerns outside hotel windows, horror flicks making up the horizon where they drive. In the hands of a more skillful story teller, Stone's visual talent could reinforce instead of detracting from the point being made. Unfortunately, though, Stone seems too arrogant to allow his voice to be hampered or his visual talents honed. As he has shown with some...
...raining, even pouring, but we went to the stadium anyway. It really made no sense, and we knew it, so thick were the forecast bands of precipitation. But with the scarier storm of a players' strike on the horizon, to neglect the tickets in our possession seemed suicidal...
...seem a mere dot on a theoretical horizon, but you will eventually leave here, most likely with a degree. And when "that dirty gray turmoil" of the real world swirls around you, clouding and obscuring the friendships that have been formed here, it seems likely that we will look back on this place with glasses colored pink with memories...
...trip to Baja California returned early to Los Angeles last week after more than 400 passengers came down with an unidentified intestinal ailment. It may have been the reason one elderly man died. And just a few weeks ago, 1,200 disgruntled passengers were evacuated from the ocean liner Horizon in Bermuda because of the threat of Legionnaires' disease. Among customers on previous Horizon voyages this summer, there have been 11 confirmed cases of the potentially fatal pneumonia-like illness and 24 suspected cases. At least one victim died...
...addition, Payton and every other hitter at Wahconah has to deal with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid out with day baseball in mind. Home plate faces west -- precisely the wrong direction for Mets games that now begin at 7 p.m. As the sun slips toward the horizon, it slides into the line of sight between pitcher and batter. This is the only instance in organized baseball when an umpire can be accused, without rebuttal, of being blind. But more to the point, the batter too is blinded. At that juncture the umpire decrees a sun delay...