Word: gawk
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...circus colleagues. Everywhere one looks on the lot (that is circus argot, the lot; townsfolk who come to gawk before the show are called, uncharitably, lot lice) there are people doing a dozen jobs, saying nothing else beats the life. Dennis Harvey, ringmaster, welder, electrician: "I'm more settled here than anywhere, strange as it sounds. It's like joining a family." Moira Loter, bareback rider, aerialist, jackie-of-all-trades: "I've lived in a house. You always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according...
...Friday-night ritual in Westwood Village, an enclave of movie theaters and trendy shops neighboring the sprawling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Teen-agers and college students hang about the bars and ice-cream parlors to gawk and hobnob, while lines of moviegoers curl around the corners...
...fixtures as familiar as the leafletters and construction workers. Stationed at the T stop next to At of Town News, these black leather-clad youths with shaved heads and chains neatly part the otherwise amorphous crowd Steer clear, take a peek, then maybe chance another look, but don't gawk-everyone reacts the same way. Yet it doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort to impress the hurried passersby...
...looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said Britain's Guardian, "not exactly an exhilarating performance." When the Queen left promptly at 11, some of the famous Americans disobeyed orders and stood up, craning, to gawk...
...bazaar, over and around peanut vendors, bicycles, carts, dogs and cows to escape his nemesis, the decadent Kamal, played by Louis Jourdan. Moore is, of course, impeccably dressed. "It adds the bizarre to the bazaar," he notes, with an insouciant cock of the left eyebrow. "Who wouldn't gawk at an Englishman in a dinner jacket running down a street here with a six-bladed dagger sticking out of his chest?" Does Bond survive? "Oh, I have a heart of steel...