Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were God, I would spread the magic that is baseball across America by instituting a neutral sight program. The Mexicans could see Fernando, the Venezuelans could watch El Presidente, and Ron Darling could get a heroes' welcome in Hawaii (if he were still pitching...
...more than too-little, too-late Internet technology, were silenced by the program's sheer undeniable quality. The browser's slick interface drew on Microsoft's years of consumer-products research. And though there were flaws--it has several prominent security holes, and no Macintosh version is in sight--3.0 had brightly colored, easy-to-use buttons, was cleverly designed and ran smoothly with Windows 95. In short, the thing looked like a high-grade consumer product...
...miraculously, wrong on the last one. For Fly Away Home is as much a hymn to human eccentricity--and inventiveness--as it is to the human spirit. To begin with, these birds have an interesting problem. They have to learn to fly and migrate; since Amy was their first sight on earth, "imprinted" on the goslings as their mom, the seemingly impossible job of getting them airborne is hers. Good thing Dad likes to fool around with ultralight aircraft, which fly at roughly goose speed. Good thing Amy has the gumption to fly one of those contraptions...
...convention was the culmination of that Clinton-Morris calculation. The message was: We don't have parties, we have relatives, a big national family picnic. Which is why on the first day, politicians were banished from sight. Actor Christopher Reeve barely mentioned Clinton in his speech, and when he talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns...
What with the spread of the World Wide Web and the increasingly cluttered electronic sight-and soundscape, the act of reading and turning wood-pulp pages may strike some as hopelessly passe, the informational equivalent of the fondue party. Two of the fall's more interesting books argue, perhaps unsurprisingly but also quite persuasively, against this view; they are about books and the wealth of contemplative pleasures they afford...