Word: gaze
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...Ritz Carlton late Sunday morning, with a fire roaring the backround. Dressed conservatively as they sat on a small sofa, the Clintons were calm and collected. They held hands intermittently. At one point Hillary Clinton gently rubbed her husband's back, but there was none of the fawning gaze Nancy Reagan affected every time her husband performed...
...conceded that he had not been a complete success. He was convinced that the reforms he began in 1985 were "historically correct." But, he added, "there were mistakes made that could have been avoided, and many of the things that we did could have been done better." His severe gaze and impenetrable self-assurance hardly wavered as he refused to admit that he and his office had become irrelevant. He could not even bring himself to say he was resigning; he had decided, he said, to "discontinue my activities" out of "considerations of principle...
...dazzling photographs and sprightly prose, Acting Hollywood Style probes how and why movie stars move us. The author dissects Hollywood acting through discussions of body language, voice and the landscape of the face -- how we read emotions into the luminous but blank gaze of Greta Garbo...
...sensibility to that of their sources, ((Pop artists)) have in turn modified our own perceptions and created an indelible record of the spirit of our time." It's hard to believe that anyone in 1991 could still speak of "assaulting conventions of taste," since Pop's media-fixated gaze has actually become the main convention of taste in the aesthetic debris left in the '80s' wake. The galleries of Europe and America are stuffed with inert, overconceptualized boilerplate, from Koons to Haim Steinbach, that gets praised for its "criticality" but, as a footnote exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery shows...
From the opening moments, the audience is struck by Simpson's convincing limp and fearful apologetic manner. Her dreamy, distracted gaze is both believable and endearing. And when she slouches pigeon-toed, unaware of her wrinkled sweater and bunched stockings, the viewer is convinced that Laura has escaped into a world...