Joyce Carol Oates once complained that Hardwick's book Sight-Readings would more helpfully be called Depth-Readings, but Hardwick's title was somehow to the point.
Its high hills or tiny alleyways, cafes, shops or galleries … We're looking for your highlights beyond the obvious guide book sights.
First there was the perpetually hard-up young tyro who never really hit the jackpot until the revue Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976: a show he booked sight unseen since he missed a Sunday-night try-out in Wavendon by driving up the M4 instead of the M1.
Selecting the books caused controversy at the time, with many blind readers complaining of censorship, and that books judged good for them were being selected instead of the kind of books sighted people were reading.
I always imagined his house in Malibu with absolutely barren shelves, not a book in sight".
I had to abandon it, mid-read, mid-holiday, with no back-up book in sight.
5. Kids have been waiting all year for the next written instalment from Rowling, but as yet there is no fifth Harry Potter book in sight.
Here's what the stars ordained in 1985 for Shirley Soffer: The novel she was writing wasn't going well, so she consulted her astrological chart, dumped the novel and began reading every astrology reference book in sight.
The building seems at first glance to be filled with banks of sleek computers with not a book in sight, at least on the third floor, where the dance, theater and research collections are found, and on the first floor, where one enters from Lincoln Center Plaza.
Paradoxically, Berger exploited details in Ways of Seeing and today's art historians are intoxicated by them – none more so than social art historian TJ Clark (no relation), whose short book The Sight of Death (2006) features 70 delirious details of two paintings by Poussin.
