Word: gaze
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With Rosalynn, she sipped tea but left the fattening pastries untouched while she plied her hostess with housekeeping questions. Rosalynn also escorted her out on the "Truman balcony" to gaze over the spacious South Lawn and led her through the public and private rooms of her new dwelling. Advised Rosalynn: "The most important thing about the White House is to enjoy it." Nancy clearly was prepared...
...brief quadrennial eruption. An impressively haughty 19th century protocol dictated that the office must seek the man. William McKinley, for example, a candidate of piercing eye and vacuous mind, rocked away the 1896 campaign on his front porch in Canton, Ohio, while Mark Hanna freighted in the citizenry to gaze upon...
...that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion in his divisions and compartments; not without reason did he call himself a "constructivist." What one sees in the boxes is not just memory, but the exact disposition of memory, an entrancingly just division of one's gaze between thought and material...
...movie whose dramatis personae include a lovable old coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons...
...abandons coherence, chronology, and even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality--his memories--with frightening alacrity. Like a night when the nightmares refuse to end, Allen can't shield his eyes from the suffering around him but refuses to fix his gaze on any one element of pain long enough somehow to understand...