Word: sighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight carries him well into the third mile...
...narrowed to a blind alley. Reconciling with Charlie or starting life over without him seem dour alternatives after her glimpse at the limitless prospects of her youth. Like the Jimmy Stewart character in Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, she receives the gift of second sight. But Peggy Sue's flashback convinces her that she must treasure what she has lost, not what she has achieved. A bittersweet dream, but it is knowledge to build on. And as played by Turner, she is one beautiful dreamer...
...neither ugly nor beautiful, but Hockney has given it real intensity as an image. Partly this is due to the "texture" of the photographs, which, at this scale, work like brush marks. The sky, shingled with hundreds of prints of blue (it must have been a strange sight for passing cars: the stocky, owl-like Limey tourist with the moon glasses pointing his camera at the sky and clicking away), is rich in a quite painterly way, while the copious, overlapping details from which the ground, highway and signs are recomposed seem to flicker in and out of focus, compelling...
...already late, and it was cold. That night it snowed in some portions of Vermont. But we had to pick apples. So we hopped out of the car at the sight of the first apple-laden trees, and one of my roommates started plucking everything in sight...
...significance of all this activity went far beyond the fates of Daniloff and Zakharov, and even beyond the prospect of another chance for Reagan to sit by a fireplace with Gorbachev. The goal that suddenly seemed in sight was a potentially important breakthrough in arms control. Both sides have been quietly inching toward a bargain on the highly charged issue of intermediate- range nuclear forces, one that for the first time would significantly reduce -- rather than just set a ceiling on -- the number of nuclear weapons. At the U.N. last week, Reagan and Shevardnadze raised hopes for a quick agreement...