Word: gaze
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...involved with the Klan because "I would have had to kill people." Writes McWhorter: "I couldn't quite grasp the grandiosity that would make someone falsely claim intimate knowledge of the most horrible crime of his time." Neither can we. Like McWhorter, the best we can do is to gaze unflinchingly at the evil of oppression and erase it from our own hearts...
Coincidence? She didn't think so. One younger student, she said, had dutifully memorized the 10 "nonverbal communication skills" from our handout (vary your gaze, lean toward the patient, nod frequently, use hand gestures) and performed them all in rote sequence, prompting her concerned patient to ask, "Are you O.K., honey?" Another younger student, in a rush to get his patient's sexual history, asked her bluntly, "Do you have sex with men, women or both?" The grandmother of three, recovering from a heart condition, stared back dumbfounded...
...great the game could be. Last October, 18 years after his retirement, Stargell returned to Pittsburgh to say good-bye to Three Rivers Stadium, where he'd emerged from Clemente's long shadow and hit his stride as a home run hitter. As a frail Stargell cast his gaze around the concrete bowl that had seen his glory days, he waved weakly to a rapturous crowd, and smiled behind his tears...
...they build friendships over sales, they sometimes even wed. Spend any amount of time hanging out here and you will get the impression of a vast, virtual citadel under rapid construction, a tower of Babel with street hawkers on every level, most all of them kept honest by the gaze of their neighbors...
Take a good look at the woman in the picture at left. Gaze into those brown UFO eyes, get a load of that Roman nose and those flaring lips, features that have been memorized by a global audience via Spanish films like Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh and All About My Mother, and Hollywood outings like Woman on Top and All the Pretty Horses. Now let us convince you that Penélope Cruz is (and this is the part that will throw you) average...