Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wild was sight-reading by age six, his fluid technique already a source of wonder. As a teenage student of the formidable Egon Petri (a tough, intellectual pianist renowned for his sturdy Liszt and penetrating Beethoven performances), Wild was already a concert-hall veteran, a kind of young American version of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1942, the legendary Arturo Toscanini invited him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony. Wild remains the only American soloist ever to play under the fiery Italian maestro...
...ROTHSTEIN (ROBERT DE NIRO) favors sports jackets in blinding solids--sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...
Furthermore, Dunsmore said network anchors have become so worried about their images that they have lost sight of what they are supposed to be doing, which is reporting the news...
...Cambridge Historical Commission had been concerned that the traditional sight lines down Harvard Street from Harvard Square and vice versa were maintained, according to Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the commission...
...Statue of Liberty is open again, just as the Thanksgiving Week vacation surge hits its peak, and thousands of tourists are headed for the awe-inspiring sight of the Grand Canyon. By ending the budget stasis now, President Clinton and GOP leaders have avoided not only the real pain that might be suffered by the needy who are dependent on federal social programs, but the spectacle of a lot of government-run operations growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their...