Word: gawked
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...company, on sustainable energy projects. Since passing the torch to the town's current mayor, Nakamura now promotes eco-tourism in the area. Kuzumaki hosts more than 400,000 visitors a year - up from 60,000 a decade ago - who come to the area to enjoy the scenery and gawk at what some consider to be a prototype for communities everywhere...
...BAPEs: Nobody's going to buy this book to read the articles, few of which consist of more than a page of loosely spaced text. It's the photo spreads - especially of the clothes, and especially of famous people wearing the clothes - that will make most readers stop and gawk. In that respect, *A Bathing Ape pays off. Aside from J-Pop starlets and Japanese celebrities like club DJ Cornelius and artist Takashi Murakami, the book's cameos read like an urban teenager's iTunes playlist: N.E.R.D.'s Pharrell Williams, DJ Shadow, M.I.A., T.I., Young Jeezy, Joel and Benji Madden...
...next gallery, two American tourists paused to gawk at Frederick through the open doorway. Frederick’s pasty body jerked against the marble form of Narcissus. Frederick was making a high-pitched, keening sound. Narcissus regarded his reflection complacently...
...consisted mostly of shoes and handbags, some of which had been worn by Taylor, Monroe and Mary Pickford. He was flanked by movie stars Tony Leung (In The Mood For Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), whose presence drew hordes of passersby to gawk from just outside the VIP enclosure, holding phones aloft in an attempt to capture a grainy souvenir. Ferruccio talked about how Shanghai was chosen for the exhibition's premiere partly because the city represented 'the future.' Let's hope they do something about the eye-watering, throat-searing pollution before...
...into my walk, I am tempted to think of this condition as incurable. But truly learned Harvardians must never give up on those unluckier than us. The next time a Cambridge driver gestures monodigitally at you or runs over your toe, smile and wave. They might slow down to gawk at you just enough to get under the speed limit. What a difference you can make...