Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst news for the Clintons is the appearance of the records in plain sight. Huber told the committee she was in the book room days before her discovery and saw no papers on the table. Asked if she thought someone had deposited them deliberately in the interim, she answered, "Someone had." If the papers were knowingly withheld while under subpoena, that someone might have committed a felony...
...room and gaze gives Hodgkin's work its basic trope, that of peeping and peering--from culture (the room) into nature (everything else) and back again. It's not about seeing here and now but about the memory of having seen; not complete and ordered possession of a sight but the turbulence of memory, inflected with a sense of loss at its elusiveness...
...What we wanted to do was not lose sight of the fact that Boston is hosting the event," he said. "We're very happy with our choice...
...moment that Harvard University endorsed the cause of the Kaiser, nor would the World War II memorial to Adolph Saanwald imply an endorsement of Hitler. Even the slowest tourist has more sophistication than that, and to imply that future generations of Harvard students would be confused at the sight of such a memorial to the Confederate dead and think it Harvard's endorsement of the "peculiar institution," certainly doesn't credit the future with much intelligence. The fact that other institutions have managed to commemorate their dead on both sides of the Civil War has not served to confuse their...
...pauses, of course; revealing things too early is not in his best interests. But eventually he gets to the love-at-first-sight meeting of his future parents and the births of his three elder sisters and finally his own, which is unusual in that his mother carried him only 41/2 months. He calls himself "a man living double quick." For every year he lives he ages two. "No need for supernatural explanations; some cock-up in the DNA will...