Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Puzzled passersby were treated to the sight of three dead animals outside the Science Center yesterday as the Environmental Action Committee and Green Corps attempted to draw attention to the plight of endangered species...
...have turned Miami into the third busiest fashion spot, after Paris and New York. Italian designer Gianni Versace became so enamored during a brief stopover that he is spending millions to renovate a $2.95 million villa on touristy Ocean Drive in South Beach. "It was really love at first sight," he says. At the dinner hour one evening, Maguy Le Coze, co-owner of Miami's chic Brasserie Le Coze, was recounting tales of European friends who are investing in Miami, including a jet-set residential club on South Beach. "I don't know if the Americans believe in Miami...
This bit of surrealism is, however, only one of the fey charms of the work, which opened off-Broadway last week. Playwright Donald Margulies, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to life by climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem...
...hearings, quietly dismissed that as only "medium" capability. In fact, the American intelligence community within the past two years has achieved what President Dwight Eisenhower once prematurely claimed: the capacity to spot a golf ball on the links. This means the agencies really do have the spy sight beloved of scriptwriters: they can read the license plates on cars. That eye in the sky has finally become a microscope in the cope...
...memories of repeated incest and other bizarre incidents be so repressed that the victim is totally unaware of them until they emerge during therapy or as the result of a triggering sight, smell or sound...