Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green never came close to the Crimson as the inconsiderate visitor burned the host team from the start...
...works, including a new high-speed bullet train that makes the trip from Madrid to Seville in less than three hours. Like any world's fair, Expo '92 has its fetching gizmos. The 231 IBM touch-screen computer monitors scattered around the 538-acre site are truly useful: a visitor, presented with an aerial photo of Expo, touches anything in the picture and gets a closeup view of the area touched -- and then, with another touch, a still closer view of a particular pavilion or theater. Restaurant reservations can be made on the screens, video messages left for family...
...visitor from abroad running the Marathon sees a case study of American landscape built for the automobile society. You meet sidewalks only occasionally, in the town centers. To get from the garden store to the Big D Wonder Mart to the HeadQuarters hair salon, you need a car. Without the automobile, this strip development would not make sense...
...temple, called Angkor Wat, was the work of the ancient Khmer kings of Angkor, whose empire stretched from what is now southern Vietnam to Burma. Today a first-time visitor may feel like a modern Indiana Jones who spies misty towers peaking behind dense foliage and thinks he has discovered a lost civilization...
Occasionally, however, an exhibition comes along that gets the visitor to think about what they see. Recently, the Museum of Fine Arts mounted a show entitled "Beuys and Warhol: The Artist as Shaman and Star," which did exactly that. This exhibition, which examined the work of American pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and German artist Josef Beuys (1921-1986), should be remembered as one of those rare shows that triggers an intense viewer response...