Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ndosho orphanage nine miles outside of Goma, they hang onto the clothes of any adult in sight, and when night falls and the air grows cold, they cry for their mothers. "You hold them and they don't want to let you go," says Julienne Mukeba, 24, a law student from Kinshasa who is volunteering at the camp. They arrive by the hundreds, some orphaned, some wrenched from their parents during the crush at the border crossing, some abandoned by the starving. Many are too young to tell their stories; the staff make up names. And many don't last...
...make sense of what they are seeing. Faced with something new in their visual experiences, they are likely to jump to questionable conclusions. After watching three comet fragments pound, at around 130,000 m.p.h., into Jupiter's dense atmosphere, Steve Maran, an understandably elated NASA astronomer, called the sight "the greatest one-two-three punch of all time." Meanwhile, Filippo Grandi, director of emergency aid for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, surveyed the unimaginable conditions around Goma, % the sleepy Zairean border town that had suddenly filled with over a million terrified Rwandans. More than a million other refugees, also...
While the combination of the two isn't the stuff of which Best Picture Oscars are made, it's definitely a sight to see. "True Lies" is the latest, and perhaps the most definitive, example...
...Tannhauser the following night, Mehta is a big catch for what is basically a pops performance. "Somebody has to steer this boat," he says. On a promotional video, Mehta appears as happy as a child at play, mixing it up with his three hammy friends. This is a rare sight; he is famous for his podium scowl. The unwonted ebullience points to one of the charms of the Three Tenors format: everyone is loose, laughing and ready for a little horseplay...
...that the show's supermodels don't look like supermodels and dress as though they shop at Mandee. Unlike Melrose Place, Models Inc. is simply bad, not wonderfully, enjoyably bad. It would be much more fun if it depicted fashion culture realistically. Few things are more amusing than the sight of a refined beauty in a $4,000 fluorescent yellow dress made of rubber...