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...have guests, but it's upsetting when my guests wear out their welcome. When I am walking to class, please don't stop me and ask me questions about my life at Harvard. When I am trying to enter a building, please don't block the entrance while you gaze at the wonder of Harvard's architecture. When I'm trying to get to the Union to eat, there is no need for you to block the gate in front of Lamont while you stare at the metallic blob...
...Four dollars to see Harrison Ford running for his life in "The Fugitive" for two hours, or gaze at the heartland of America for free...
...Baptists," Yuri explains matter-of-factly, his gaze direct and intense."We have always been persecuted here for our religious beliefs. We always will be." Some Americans, familiar with the Jewish exodus from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s, assume that religious discrimination in Russia ended along with mandated Marxist atheism. But the Khamovs, whose fellow Baptists make up less than one-half of 1% of the population, say otherwise. The motherland, they say, has simply exchanged a state credo of godlessness for an older tradition: the hegemony of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yuri smiles as he recalls...
Keegan shares the usual civilized revulsion at war: a richly knowledgeable antipathy in his case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...film is very much like a painting; when the man is sitting in the drawing room at the beginning of his arrival, the camera follows his gaze around the room, much as our eyes would be led across a canvas of an impressionist work. The pastels of the women's clothing pass by in a whir as the camera focuses in upon the countenances of the people. The light is soft and the cinematography draws attention to the details of the men's starched white shirts and meticulously coiffed hair. Because the camera dwells upon the details of the guests...