Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Gaines expanded the TIME franchise by introducing TIME FOR KIDS, TIME DIGITAL and such online services as TIME DAILY. Yet he never lost sight of the magazine's primary mission. Says Gaines: "The new wave of instant news via broadcast TV, cable and the computer has created not a problem for Time, but an opportunity. Having all this access to news does not mean that people today are better informed; it just means they are ill informed about more things. If I'm right, the most important news function on the information highway will not be the provision...
...revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View of Delft, Vermeer probably used the camera obscura--a box with a lens that captures the image of a scene on ground glass. It may be that the circles of confusion--the luminous spots caused by imperfections of the lens--gave...
...Sight has taken over from narrative. Nothing really happens. Time has stopped. Yet for all his classicism, his tense repose and care with proportion and interval, Vermeer can be a theatrical painter. It's just that the theatricality is cooled down by being shifted from people to props, leaving the peace of the figures undisturbed. It's like the moment when a curtain rises to show an actor in reverie ignoring the audience...
...sucks. In this teeming hellhole (lots of clatter and clutter), madmen get the best lines, and a heroic time traveler hardly stands a chance. Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips (notably Vertigo). But at the sight of three giraffes crossing a city bridge, you'll think of a more recent movie. A bad one. In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji for adults...
...HERE COMES MR. JORDAN: Michael, for some reason, decided the bright lights of Greenville, Huntsville, Knoxville, Jacksonville and the other villes of minor- league baseball were not for him. In a year of many happy returns, the renewed sight of Jordan--tongue and all--in a Bulls uniform was the most welcome. He gave the team a boost, unslumped the big shoulders of Chicago and demonstrated that even when rusty, he's still His Airness. The White Sox may have lost a fifth outfielder, but the planet regained its best basketball player...