Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers always ask if Dalgleish will rendez-vous with Cordelia Gray, James' female private-eye, but James refuses to comment on any possible future entanglements. She also denies any personal attachment to the Commander, pooh-poohing parallels to Dorothy Sayer's well-known infatuation with her own detective, Lord Peter Wimsey...
...Make eye contact. A long gaze is enticing, flattering and plain old intriguing. Self-aware, yet not self-conscious gestures are appropriate at this point; run your fingers through your hair, light a cigarette or freestyle. Once your target knows there's something up, act casual. Although you may be impatient, it is crucial to appear disinterested for a period of time. Let them wonder, but never let them wander...
...third and final scene, the characters unravel to the point of near abstraction. Unable to find the absent father, John and Donny are moving, and Del arrives to make amends. John has become completely dissociated from the other characters, looking straight ahead into the audience, refusing to make eye contact, asking chilling questions with an eerie lack of emotion: "Do you ever think things?" "Do you ever wish that you could die?" The mother attempts a bit longer to deal with John but is ultimately too devastated by her husband's rejection and by her strange unreachable son. Del meanwhile...
...years ago, being considerably brighter of eye and bushier of tail, I was enrolled in a research workshop which was supposed to be about comparative politics but which soon came to be known as "Tenure: The History of Desire" since a significant portion of class discussion was inevitably devoted to a discussion of tenure and the formulation of various strategies for achieving desired outcomes...
...workshops will focus on "listening skills and how to have discussions with others you don't see eye-to-eye with," according to Assistant Dean of Students Sarah E. Flatley, who coordinates the Mediation Service...