Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LITTLE STATUE OF A NAKED Cupid blushed unseen, or largely so, for some 90 years in the same spot: a mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue designed by Stanford White. In the 1950s the building was sold to the French government and became a quasi-public space entered daily by employees and visitors. There the Cupid still stood, looking like nothing more than a piece of Gilded Age gimcrackery...
Poor parental role models and a Southern tradition of violence are unseen but potent origins of crime in America, New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield '61 said last night...
...Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales. In the 474 days between the arrest and the release of O.J. Simpson, TIME's reporters and correspondents attended confidential sessions, debriefing the principals; once the verdict was delivered, the major players cast even greater light on the drama's hidden plots. Now the story behind...
...Dutchess County, New York; a reporting junket to the West Indies with his teenage son; and a cross-country automobile trip with his wife to celebrate the first anniversary of his successful surgery. Several times during his narration, Morrow writes of being invisible--of being, in various contexts, an unseen observer. Everywhere, turbulent memories surface and are recorded with the faithfulness of a man whose search for answers will not be denied. In the end, however, he concludes that his introspection has been "useless, or anyway illusory, that it is silly to think I can understand the reasons for these...
...slightly built, had coarse, nut-brown features and wore the flimsy black short-legged outfit we called pajamas. My gaze fixed on his feet. He was wearing sandals cut from an old tire, a strip of the sidewall serving as the thong. This was our fearsome unseen enemy. I felt nothing, certainly not sympathy. I had seen too much death and suffering on our side to care anything about what happened on theirs. We took the wounded V.C.s prisoner and left...