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Word: sighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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David L. Halberstam '55 said he was pleasantly "stunned" by the sight of his old classmates at the reunion...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Twenty-Fifth Reunion Class Returns With Smiles, Checks | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

MOST OF SELLARS' Inspector General understandingly subordinates the moralizing inherent in Gogol's near religious allegory to its boundless wealth of burlesque, making the play a perfect entertainment above all else. Neither Sellars nor the ART actors are shy of sight-gags; in just one extraordinarily droll mime sequence, Stephen Rowe's embarassed Bobchinsky, stranded in front of the curtain with a broken nose, loses his only companion on the stage--a cubic wooden platform that descends as he leans on it--and shuffles nervously, disconsolately offstage...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Gogol's Grotesque Mirror | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

Tension release, Rick Spiers '79-4 says, can be a spectacular sight. Some people have had memories of their birth so vivid that they jump into a fetal position and start twisting and turning--recreating their own birth...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: River St. Group Runs Massage Clinic | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

...Lakers won the first game, 109-102. Next it was Erving's, and the Sixers', turn. He had 23 points and seven assists with five blocked shots, two of them against Abdul-Jabbar himself. As the teams headed for Philadelphia for the weekend, fans savored the sight of Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook and Erving's skywalking. It was turning out to be, as admirers had believed all along, a dream confrontation come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Guy Meets the Doctor | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Thus it was an odd sight to see not one but ten Lucia Chases onstage at the close of a three-hour show that mixed short excerpts and pas de deux with bows by beloved former dancers like Irina Baronova, Muriel Bentley, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, Annabelle Lyon, Violette Verdy. Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: ... And a Fond Family Affair | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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