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With entry to the epicentre of America’s oldest college restricted to Harvard ID-holders and their guests, the tour groups that regularly block pathways and gawk at students on their way to classes were nowhere to be seen. With the exception of clusters of eager would-be Harvard parents and their children, there were no massive groups of camera-toting intruders taking pictures of real-life-honest-to-goodness Harvard students or naïvely rubbing our benefactor’s foot for good luck...
BOSTON—They came by the thousands from across the country, filing into the FleetCenter for three straight days and nights to participate in the formal nomination of a presidential candidate, hear the best rhetoric an opposition party had to offer or gawk at Beltway celebs. Often, it seemed just being in the corridors abutting the floor of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was enough. Certainly, it was enough to spur a healthy trade in the many-colored stiff paper passes which granted varying levels of convention access to their bearers...
...been to since Harding was President (Bowling Green, Ky.). Perhaps a few ancient Romans may fondly remember the last time Ringling set up its big top there, on Oct. 22, 1942, but the locals acted recently as if they had never seen anything like it, lining the streets to gawk at the 64-vehicle circus caravan rolling into town...
...Don’t gawk while you’re in Sigma Chi’s stately house...hmm...[snicker...
...These are serious directors; they wouldn't be caught dead having their cameras merely gawk at women. They make movies with morals-sad ones about a woman's wiles and vulnerability, her rough handling by society, an infernal temptation or a curse. Art films, of course, take the woman's side; in serious cinema it is always the Year of the Victim...