Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people," he later told TIME. "I said to my friend, 'Why do we have to go to Cuba? It's fun here.' It was love at first sight...
...area in which Republicans could be getting out ahead of the public mood is in the provisions that would imprison kids with adults, though not in the same cells. While reportedly 8,000 teens are already housed with adults, federal rules require "sight and sound" separation, meaning juveniles cannot be within reach of adults. Some corrections officials say that requires a pointless division of facilities used by both populations--for instance, two exercise areas when one could be shared. The Senate bill would override the complexities of the sight-and-sound rule by imposing a "no physical contact" provision, which...
...final destination--is intriguing, and much more satisfying than anything that follows. The movie lumbers along for about an hour until the signal arrives. Then it kicks into high speed, only to lapse once again into plodding. There are a few unexpected and welcome turns--most notably the chilling sight of the first visual image transmitted from Vega; and whenever elusive, eccentric billionaire S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie's secret ally, pops...
...with guests competing for the title of most wry. This free-market environment, though, does not guarantee that the show is always funny. Often whole episodes go by without any amusing moments occurring apart from Maher's opening monologue (which a team of comedy writers produces) or the mere sight of people like G. Gordon Liddy and rapper Coolio seated together...
...against prevailing academic trends, mainly the ones--deconstruction, cultural studies, gender studies--that examine literature for its complicity in racism, colonialism, sexism and homophobia. Alter's group believes that lit-crit obsessions with race, gender and sexuality reduce imaginative writing to the sum of its crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing.") Says Alter: "The bulk of academics cut their eyeteeth in the student revolution. They keep pushing...