Word: gazed
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This is a place populated by castoffs from the American Dream who still manage, against stiff odds, to hold on to some small scrap of spirit and some little bit of hope. Los Lobos can find a flinty spirituality in some unlikely places, including the gaze of a damaged child in Little John of God: "You can say with your eyes/ What others only say inside." Los Lobos has weathered its own internal trial, a loss of direction that followed the group's greatest popular success, and it is by going back to The Neighborhood that the band has finally...
Just beyond the gaze of the golden Buddha in the Eindawya pagoda in Mandalay, the spiritual heart of Burma, dozens of soldiers slouched around the courtyard, propping their rifles against the stone balustrades. Outside the temple gates, more troops manned barbed-wire barricades. "Please leave," an army captain shouted last week to a group of tourists trying to photograph the Buddha. "You may come back when our security situation is right...
...modernity, since 20th century sculptors drew on Mexican sources for inspiration -- Henry Moore's reclining women, for instance, derive partially from the powerful crankshaft rhythms of Yucatan Chacmool figures. But the best pieces here, such as the stone figure of a standard-bearer from Chichen Itza with its fierce gaze and crippled foot, are beyond such comparisons. From the delicately modeled stucco glyphs of Palenque, imbued with an almost rococo elegance, to the frightful severity of Aztec pieces such as the cuauhxicalli, or blood receptacle, in the form of a stone eagle, ancient Mexican sculpture is as powerful...
...Saddam's contradictory legacy abound: housing projects only half- finished, soccer stadiums and no foreign teams to play in them, empty hotels with antiaircraft batteries on their roofs. The city is at once sinuous and Stalinesque: palm trees and concrete mausoleums with a martial theme. And everywhere the gaze of the maximum leader. Hundreds of billboard-size portraits are painted on buildings, framed in traffic circles, displayed in lobbies: Saddam drawing sword, Saddam on stallion, Saddam in sunglasses, Saddam in camouflage fatigues, Saddam looking like Xavier Cugat in white suit, Saddam slaying the infidels. In the city center...
...story also fits comfortably into the Pudding's tradition of poking fun at a particular era or theatrical genre. However, the musical strikes new ground in its choice of the 1940s, a period which, according to Pudding officers, had never before fallen under the organization's satirical gaze...