Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing, no pace, no zest? The kindest answer is that the show needs works (South Pacific's been afflicted with almost as many unforeseen difficulties as Cleopatra) and there can be no doubt that next weekend, when the cast feels more secure, it will be a damn sight more entertaining...
...Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left of the paved...
...sheriff's rescue teams worked in the debris, another tornado whipped into sight. "It looked as if it was coming right for us," said Caton. "It looked very big. It didn't have that kind of corkscrew-type spiral. This one looked like the stem off the ugliest kind of mushroom I'd ever want to see." The tornado shifted course, and the sheriff jumped into his car to follow it. He arrived at a residential section about two miles away to see a nightmare of death and walking wounded amid a totally shattered landscape. "Trees were...
...group had the look of a decontamination unit mopping up after an atomic explosion. Stumbling down the street, interfering with traffic, all jabbering at once, arms flailing in all directions, was a tangle of men loaded down with electronic equipment. But the only explosive item in sight was Harry Truman, out for a morning stroll while visiting Manhattan. The city's TV newsmen were on hand, milking him for every jaunty, testy word as they pursued him for 20 minutes from his hotel at Madison and 76th, over to Fifth Avenue, up a few blocks and then back again...
...Warhol's stacked Brillo Boxes. There were roughly 500 Ibs. of real food per person-and no wonder. The bash that brought out Rome's smart set last week was the opening of Italy's largest supermarket, a two-story, 33,000-sq.-ft. expanse within sight of St. Peter's that stocks 20,000 products and has everything from a lunch counter to a dress shop...