Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the gaze of 1.500 spectators, the match began in a theater across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. Botvinnik won the first game, and Petrosyan was afraid the champion would seize the psychological advantage. Petrosyan shifted tactics. "When he expected me to be warlike, I played as if nothing had happened." By the end of the fifth game, it was all tied up, 2½-2½*and both men showed the strain...
...parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...
Though cruelly maimed in mind and body, Peter survived and laid a curse upon Hannah before exiling himself to New York: she was never, from that moment, to leave Gaze Castle. The curse tethers Hannah on a chain of neurosis, and she accepts its terms. As her lover watches her from afar with binoculars, she mournfully prowls the grounds of Gaze. Every living soul at Gaze Castle wallows vicariously in her entrapped shame...
...novel or a poem. He could be holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
With his light on, Aznavour has discovered that in life I'amour rarely rhymes with toujours, and he tirelessly embroiders this theme in his songs. "What could I have been thinking of? Was it with you I fell in love?" sings a disillusioned Aznavour husband. "I gaze at you in sheer despair and see your mother standing there." Other songs deal with fading Don Juans, wifely nagging, and Who Gets Lolita When Humbert Humbert Dies? "I have no intellectual colleagues," Aznavour says from his artistic pinnacle, "but my rapport is with everyone...