Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...budge. On Dec. 20, 1989, in what was probably the most destructive and expensive manhunt in history, George Bush launched a full-scale invasion of, Panama. Two weeks later, wearing a nondescript T shirt and handcuffs, Noriega was whisked to Miami, where his pockmarked face and glassy-eyed gaze were captured in a police mug shot of Prisoner No. 41586. For the first time in history, the U.S. was about to try the leader of a foreign country...
With his owlish gaze, lithe step and limber tongue, Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren looks and acts like the Jesuit-trained postgraduate of M.I.T. that he is. For most of his 45 years, he has labored in profitable obscurity. During nearly 11 years of rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Lacayo, the son of one wealthy family who married into another, tended to business, leaving Nicaragua's treacherous politics to others...
...NATURE CO. This is the neo-naturalist's answer to wet seals. No rock videos here, though. Enter these stores and you're more likely to hear the babbling of a brook or the haunting song of a whale, sniff the fragrance of freshly brewed chamomile tea or gaze through dappled lighting meant to resemble sunlight in a forest. "People come in and say, 'Ahhh!'," says Anita Treash, the company's marketing director...