Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were married and took up residence in Britain. But Monika, described by a former high school teacher as "shy and withdrawn," apparently grew weary of her new life of darts at the local pub, golf at the club and loud parties at home. Indeed, she dropped out of sight last March, and police speculate that she may have been killed shortly afterward...
...those bits of cultural trivia rarely dwelt on is the way female foreigners are treated on Continental streets. A woman may visit Paris, to be sure. With a man to accompany her, she may even walk the public streets, sit in a cafe, pause to enjoy a famous sight or rest her legs. If the man is missing, things will be equally simple: she will merely be presumed, at every moment of every day, to be holding open auditions for the role...
Maybe the shopping crunch is avoidable; maybe most first-week visitors really could choose classes sight unseen. Maybe it's that simple. Too had we'll never know...
...very flat anyway. As Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson points out in one of the catalogue's searching essays, they reproduce flatter than they are. In reality, "surface qualities come into play . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight...
...nothing "miraculous" about it, but it was not the result of a mechanically acquired technique either. It is there because, in his best work, Manet's inquisitiveness never failed him; every inch of surface records an active desire to see and then find the proper translation of sight into mark...