Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Essential to the game, of course, is not challenging its values. The corporate ladder is such that if one lifts one's gaze to get any kind of perspective, one risks losing one's footing entirely. One of the charms of corporate hierarchy is that the path to success is so clearly charted that one need scarcely ask what success means--it means moving up a notch...
...creaks between disconcertingly realistic rails and wires--under a tastefully schematic tenement-surrounded lot whose metal underpinnings glow coppery in the retrospective glow of the lighting. Every so often a speech, or an unguarded exchange of glances, or a single character, leaps into relief, silhouetted against Alfred's loving gaze. Nostalgia and a craftsman's close attention gild each piece...
...name Peter Sellers has undergone something of the same transformation. The late movie comedian was a hero of sorts, forever skirmishing with a legion of enemies of the quizzical stare and the faraway gaze. And now his near-namesake, Peter Sellars '80, has devised a monumental gesture to commercial fantasies in his new American Repertory Theater production of Handel's opera Orlando, at the Loeb Drama Center...
...personal star, twinkling in the night, there to gaze at and wish upon, guiding one's fortunes: it hardly seems possible. But it really is, at least according to an enterprising Toronto-based outfit called the International Star Registry. Founded by Canadian Advertising Man Ivor Downie, 44, the company will assign a name, any respectable name, including those of rock and royalty, to a star in any requested constellation for a $30 fee (credit cards accepted). As proof of the cosmic christening, the registry sends back a star-spangled certificate with the orb's new name inscribed...
...bottle seems to waver, it only does so to remind us how mutable and hard to fix the act of seeing really is. And if the shapes look simple, their simplicity is extremely deceptive; one recognizes in it the distillation of an intensely pure sensibility, under whose gaze the size of the painting, the silence of the motif and the inwardness of the vision...