Word: sight
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...cinematic visionary, it's only appropriate that George Miller is talking about sight: his own (those Le Corbusier-style specs are not only a style icon; more importantly for a man who spends much of his time writing and reading scripts, they're multifocals) and that of horses. When he learns from Time's photographer that equine eyesight moves constantly between monocular and binocular vision, the ever-affable and ultra-curious Miller moves forward in his chair: "So depending on which part of the eye they look out of they can see close or far away? That's amazing...
Holidaying can be tough on the solo traveler. If it isn't bad enough paying the markups for single rooms, or dealing with the sight of couples simpering at each other in restaurants or on the beach, you can also become the target of unwanted sympathy. At the same time, package holidays and resort stays targeted at singles[an error occurred while processing this directive] can often be little more than a week of college-style party games and tequila-fueled advances from fellow vacationers. That's fine if you want it, but what travel operators are out there...
...Europe, political voices ranging from German leftists to the Pope expressed disgust at both the execution and the way it was carried out.? But Iraqis were unfazed by the spectacle, which seemed mild by comparison to scenes of street violence that play out everyday here.? For many Iraqis, the sight of Hussein as a dead man walking simply cast his shrinking persona deeper into a past that seems more distant all the time...
...official authorization - to sell his crops to the local cooperative, or to send his kids to school - he faced obstruction. Liang told a friend he wished he had never run for office. He cursed himself for having been popular enough to win. With no end to the abuse in sight, Liang told one friend he was considering drastic measures. On November 25, he poured pesticide down his throat. The local officials ruled the death a result of stomach disease...
...that dessert yesterday. The man who had feigned heart attacks countless times on stage died of congestive heart failure, with no resurrection in sight. But the lurid showmanship he brought to pop culture will never die. His last words, apparently, were ?I?m going away tonight.? Considering his impact, they might have been ?I feel good...