Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Park and proceed along the paved road until it turns into a red clay rut. You are going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting...
...been a curious sight. Red flags fluttered in the breeze from the top of 26-ft.-high wooden arches set incongruously near downtown San Francisco, Chicago and New York. The arches have been beckoning passers-by to the first traveling trade show of the People's Republic of China in the U.S. The exhibit opened last week in Manhattan for the capstone stop of its tour. Now that dancers, diplomats and musicians have exchanged visits, China and the U.S. are getting close-up looks at each other's products at trade fairs in the two countries...
Unlike some others who have spent much of their careers amidst the eerie abstractions of doomsday and deterrence, Smith has preserved a sense of irony, and he never quite loses sight of geopolitical absurdities. "The strategic competition was not unlike a game of ticktacktoe," he writes. "If one knows how to play it and makes no mistakes, one cannot lose. And if both sides know how to play it, and make no mistakes, neither can win. After a while, at least for adults, it becomes a boring game...
There are some experts, though, who believe that sight is much less important than touch, either undersea or on the assembly line. "I can't afford to let the robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most...
...Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down telegraphic thunderbolts about the renewal of the National's subsidy. Censor-without-Portfolio Mary Whitehouse read about-but did not see-The Romans, and immediately swore out a complaint. Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications...