Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...square in the sky at the west end of the Fair site, Robert Moses stood in galoshes and windbreaker last week, looking upon his work in all its muddy, megalithic splendor. What Moses saw, however, was not the Fair and the 70 million visitors who would come to gape and ache and learn during the next two years. He saw what would remain after the last hot dog had been sold, the last blister soothed, and the last pageant had hung up its costumes...
...seems the same callow youth from first to last. Vincent Edwards, James Mitchum, Eli Wallach, Peter Fonda and dozens of others pop in and out of the narrative or simply vanish, presumably missing in action. There are no heroes. In one unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz...
...flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since a few men in the serpentine gorge, often no more than two yards wide, could hold up an army. Today, the narrow three-mile course is traveled by thousands of tourists who go to gape at the elaborate tombs and temples built into rock that is colored crimson, sepia, brown and violet, like watered silk...
...style. Painters might be the last great religious people, in the sense of having a vision. Yet if we really knew what we were painting, most of us would commit suicide." Though Greene's late oils are flamboyant with color, the dark side persists in black maws that gape open in his canvases. "There is always something terrible happening in a beautiful world. But everything is not all black-and if it's not all black, it's not a total tragedy...
...Middle Ages, dropped into the modern world, might gape at the jets and TV sets. But what would really set him back on his heels is the attitude of the modern family toward its children...