Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to reboot a computer with friends offering conflicting suggestions (or sometimes just at dinnertime), we realize that too many cooks can spoil the broth. And as far as relationships go, depending on the nature and identities of the persons involved, it's pretty clear that both "out of sight, out of mind" and "absence makes the heart grow fonder" are at times true...
...million had sets in 1929. The country began to turn itself into an image-saturated, stimulus-bombarded factory of desire. By the '70s and '80s, with the explosion of electronic communications, U.S. popular and kitsch culture would dominate the globe as no other had, with no limit in sight. So it was in the '20s that America's cultural fantasies started to become, for good or ill, the world...
...recalls attending a bash with the Annans at the Waldorf-Astoria last year. "There was a dance band, and most people wandered out at the end," he says. "But he and Nane were out there on the floor all alone, dancing." From now on, that might be a rare sight. World-renowned statesmen don't usually get so much space to themselves...
When OL' DIRTY BASTARD, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, left his Brooklyn studio on Monday, he was met with the sight of a 4-year-old girl trapped under a 1996 Mustang that had run her over. O.D.B. and several members of his posse rushed to the rescue and helped lift the car off her body; he later visited her while she was recovering in the hospital. Then, at Wednesday's otherwise boring Grammy awards, O.D.B., who had lost an award to Sean ("Puffy") Combs, tried to add some excitement by rushing to the stage, grabbing the mike...
...pack of Harvard first-years staggers through the Yard late one Friday night--not a wholly uncommon sight to Yard denizens. One calls out, his voice squeaky with urgency, "I gotta goooo..." His compatriots laugh and reply thickly, "Just head over to John Harvard!" The desperate first-year eventually gives into the peer pressure...