Word: gazed
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DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitch-cock's Psycho; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (where a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh...
...subway later that evening, preferring not to gaze at the potential European supremacists who seemed to crowd around me, I took notice of a poster advertising a lottery to win one of the 55,000 Green Cards granted each year by the U.S. government. “Work, live, study in the USA!” Great. Not only do they hate us, but they also want to invade our country and increase their numbers within our borders to more surely overcome our resistance when the time comes for our destruction. Nothing could satisfy them more than an active role...
...fascinated New Yorkers were by skyscrapers in the 1930s, how threatened and angered men were by workingwomen after World War II and how uncomfortable Americans were with the growing ubiquity of television in the '50s. Cartoons with a freshly showered woman inside her home hiding her breasts from the gaze of a newscaster on a TV screen were huge...
...open our mouths, preparing to show off our devoutness by belting out the melodious notes of prayers like Mi Chamocha, we are abruptly struck mute. We gaze up with fallen faces as the cantor, oblivious to our suffering, continues with his self-indulgent aria. At the few moments we had hoped to participate in what is supposed to be an inclusive, student-centered service, we feel marginalized in our own minyan. Looking around, we noticed the crestfallen looks of many peers. For a people who have lived on the margins for two millennia, we hope to at least be included...
...past and from the novel. What anchors each of the stories for the viewer are the faces of the actresses. No explanations are needed when Zhang is lasering a stare as bold as a shout or Lau is sobbing herself to sleep or Gong Li is flashing an imperious gaze. Or when Faye Wong, in our last glimpse of her, is captured in a slow-motion, slowly encroaching close-up that fades just as she is about to smile. It is an image?a kiss from the camera?of desirability that can be fully appreciated only when it slips away...