Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. A Toulouse-Lautrec print, La Grande Loge, garnered the highest price yet paid for a modern print: $15,400, more than double its 1959 value. Sotheby's was jammed for the sale, and their suave hammerman, Peter Wilson, who knows everybody in the London art world by sight, said, "I'd never seen half the people before...
...past dozen years in recording studios playing for crooners, rock 'n' rollers, Muzak and TV jingles. Still, despite his commercial coloration, he has long been respected by fellow musicians as one of America's most outstanding fiddlers; he is legendary for his ability to sight-read anything and to play it impeccably in any style under any circumstances, whether it is a love song to Rinso White or a complex passage in a Paganini concerto. When the Philharmonic asked him to audition last winter, he breezed through every obscure score that Bernstein thrust upon...
...away from the rule of law. I remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps, is mass training in community needs...
...superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
Many of the vignettes claw at the skin without reaching the heart. A few do both. There was the camp guard who became irritated at the sight of a little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...