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...will be forgiven if, like my friends at TIME, you are scratching your head and feigning interest, hoping I'll get quickly to the sexy stuff, like best non-fiction feature (the Iraq docs No End in Sight and Body of War and Michael Moore's Sicko) and distinguished achievement in production design (Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood, L.A.) . Gee, you're wondering, did The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the French story of a man totally immobilized by a stroke, beat out the German spy drama The Lives of Others? (Three out of five critics groups...
...That's the deal with critics' awards. They give prizes to whom they damn well please. No problem with that; it's their gig, and obviously they should pick their favorites. (The choices are fine with me: No Country, Persepolis and No End in Sight are all on my 10 best.) But these laurels factor into publicity campaigns for the Oscars and Golden Globes; often they are the campaigns. It's the way we critics contribute to the art-industrial complex. Our prizes certainly help determine which films get nominated, setting in motion the next round of ballyhoo before...
...them brought the news that Sundquist had won the election. And a good five minutes before the official call from the election commission, Willey had confirmed the results by checking The Crimson’s Web site on a friend’s iPhone. But Willey did not lose sight of the upside. “Think of it this way: we got 700 votes in three days of campaigning,” Willey said, including the roughly 200 second place votes the Willey-Snow ticket had garnered. “Sundquist only got 1,400 in three years...
...chest full of medals, Huckabee has leveraged his opportunities like Archimedes on a good day. His steady, good-humored performances in televised debates gradually lifted him out of the second tier and helped smother his main rival for evangelical affections, Sam Brownback of Kansas. Meanwhile, Huckabee has never lost sight of the core fact of the Iowa caucuses: turnout is minuscule. Because of inconvenient scheduling (on a school night and opposite the Orange Bowl this year) and arcane rules for voting, candidates can look like giant killers here with about as many votes as it takes to be elected...
...little perturbed to find the sartorial bonding focused more on the swapping of clothes than the stripping of them. And while there was a roomful of women, and clothes of all shapes and sizes piled into corners, there wasn’t a bare body in sight. Perhaps it should have been a tip-off that the Harvard Vestis Council was co-hosting. Not to mention the fact that the Naked Ladies’ Web site asked attendees to “clean out your closets” so they could “swap for some new things...