Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. GABRIEL FIGUEROA, 90, Mexican camera poet; in Mexico City. Working with such top directors as Luis Bunuel (seven films), John Ford and Emilio Fernandez, this superb cinematographer illuminated many a craggy vista, from the parched roads in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana to the face of Clint Eastwood (in Two Mules for Sister Sara). Through Figueroa's lens, they all looked stark, profound, beautiful...
...working with United Way and AmeriCorps*VISTA, will underwrite computer equipment over the next four years for some 2,000 community, day-care and senior-citizen centers. IBM volunteers will provide training. IBM's estimated cost: $10 million...
...Reyes introduced the panelists with a hearty "Buenas noches" and ended the night with "Hasta la vista" which means, "Until next time...
...urban spaces in the world, a two-mile-long line of green anchored by the U.S. Capitol at one end, the Lincoln Memorial at the other, and with the Washington Monument marking the center. On its flanks are groves of trees, clusters of monuments, even museums. But its central vista is an astonishment of economy. Stand at Lincoln's feet and you can see all the way to the Capitol, your gaze interrupted by nothing but the majestic spike of the Washington Monument...
...Rainbow Pool, lying serenely between Lincoln and Washington, is one of the most exquisite points along this pristine vista. A monument of any kind would violate its openness and delicacy. A World War II memorial would crush...