Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't just the beauty of the sight but the contrast form what had gone before that struck me. Somehow, Widener seemed profound, and so different from the mindless hi-I'm-Jacques-from-Podunk freshman blather. I headed toward the Widener steps and began climbing; the buzz of freshmen melted away...
Hats off to Padre manager Jim Riggleman for benching outfielder Phil Plantier, who failed to hustle on a fly ball he hit against the Mets while leading off the second inning on April 27. The towering fly landed untouched in leftfield when New York's Kevin McReynolds lost sight of the ball, but Plantier, who could have had a double, had to settle for a single because he wasn't running hard. So Riggleman yanked him, leading to an ugly scene in the dugout as Plantier stalked after the manager, complaining bitterly...
Despite this expansion, the directors never lost sight of the Coop's original purpose: to provide savings to students and faculty. Prices continued to be very competitive, and the rebate stayed around 10 percent for many years...
Having covered a number of games up to that point, I was familiar with the sight of empty stands and missing crowds...
...Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist who had polio; and one of Boyd's recurrent images, a person walking (or copulating) with an animal like a wheelbarrow, was based on the sight of a woman walking her ancient dog along St. Kilda beach, holding up its paralyzed hind legs. One felt he believed in his images (or at least entertained their possibility) as wholeheartedly as medieval artists believed in imps and sirens...