Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much to the dismay of some feminists), grinning and gripping like a mayor's wife and baking cookies to show she is not a harridan. She has even learned to stand at the back of the stage and look at Bill with a convincing imitation of the Nancy Reagan gaze...
HOUSTON--From delegates to alternates to rallying students, most of the faces that gaze toward the podium here are white...
...effort to stop the killing would entail. Clearly, there is no simple solution, diplomatic or military. Economic sanctions, mediation and U.N. peacekeepers have been tried without stopping the fighting. No case for armed intervention appeals to any President, Prime Minister or people. Frustrated, Western leaders have averted their gaze while first Slovenia, then Croatia, now Bosnia descended into chaos...
...full-throttle coverage of the Olympics has, as usual, been a matter less of journalism than of mythmaking. Every event, in the gauzy gaze of NBC's commentators, is a test of national character or moral courage. Every athlete has a stirring personal story or a dramatic comeback tale or at the very least a recent death in the family. NBC's latest contribution to the patriotic gush is a series of celebratory music videos -- among them, Marc Cohn warbling about swimming champ Pablo Morales, and D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince getting all rapped up in the Dream...
Turning her gaze on representations of Blacks in the media, hooks voices distress at their lack of complexity. She is particularly wary of joining in muchpublicized "celebrations" of diversity such as Benetton advertisements, which invariably feature models of every skin hue placed in startling juxtaposition. To hooks, these representations are not sign of true racial understanding, but simply a commodification of difference: "ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture...