Search Details

Word: sighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

While visiting Children's Memorial Hospital for a routine knee examination, Petkevitch was motivated to create the show by the sight of the many cancer-stricken children. "Skaters spend their time skating around in circles hour after hour without really doing very much for others. I wanted a chance to help those who are not so well off," Petkevitch, now an Eliot House tutor, said...

Author: By John Rippey and Jim Silver, S | Title: Skating Stars to Light Bright | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

...Tigers are tamed 7-6 by the Generals from Washington and Lee. It seems a perfect postcard of an all-American scene. But look a little closer. A few details are amiss. The pep band in the stands has only male members. There is not a curvy cheerleader in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those All Male Alma Maters | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Naturally, all ends well for all. The entire cast is tiptop, though when Hepburn smiles, audience eyes are bound to be glued to the sun goddess. The unlikeliest sight of all is the closing scene on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater, when Katharine Hepburn "fakes" humility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Divine Right | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

FOUR YEARS and seven productions later. Harvard audiences can bear out Bellucci's words: the sight of him with a clean face and street-clothes is more startling than any make-up and costume. In elevators and dining halls, he is greeted by stares of hazy recognition and far-off voices muttering, "Aren't you...?" The sentence never ends with "John Bellucci"--it ends with names like Vershinin (from a Peter Sellars production of "The Three Sisters"), Helena Basket (the lead in the 1980 Hasty Pudding show, "A Little Knife Music"), and most recently, Mac the Knife, from last month...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Hedgehogness That Beats on the Brain | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

South Florida's crime rate. Drug shootouts are becoming a frequent sight in certain parts of Miami. At a busy intersection in Coral Gables last month, for example, a Mercedes Benz was suddenly surrounded and its 30-year-old Colombian driver killed in a burst of machine-gun fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | Next