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...looks at Ronald Reagan in public. Her worshipful staring during his speeches had for years been regarded as prima-facie evidence of a Goody Two-Shoes phoniness. She claims that it was not a theatrical device, just her natural way of watching anyone speak. But the gaze is gone. "I am trying not to do it as much as I have done it in the past," she explains, "only because there was so much talk about it and it was kind of ridiculed." Campaigning last year seemed to convince her that she can venture out alone without making costly faux...
...imperial impulse that brought Europe to its glory eventually helped bring it to its knees, and the world's richest, most powerful, most industrially sophisticated nation now lies to the west of England, on the far side of an ocean. In 1851 Arnold could stand in his country, gaze across the Channel at France and behold the world's two giants. These days one may behold the world's two giants from the moon or from the Bering Strait. But where, metaphorically, is our Dover Beach today? To Arnold, the divorce of intellect and feeling was the central ailment...
...PRESS PACKET for the movie opens with the lines "For how many years did we gaze into the night sky, wondering 'Are we indeed alone? Is man nothing more than an accident in the Universe, an orphan race lost forever in the void of space?'" This movie hardly seems capable of answering such profound questions. It is too stereotypical and too simplistic to address effectively these philosophical perplexities. The few hours go by pleasantly enough, and there are some suspenseful moments that will keep you on the edge of your seat, but don't expect anything like...
...Pause, withering stare) "You saw it?' (disinterested gaze, combined with sip from sherry glass and lengthy stare at shoelaces) "Yes." (raised eyebrows, implication of deep passions long ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover who came out of the closet on a Venetian gondola and shtupped his wife in their bridal suite...
...entice Master Builder James Hoban into doing superb work. When Congress wanted to expropriate the building for the Supreme Court, Washington said no. When Congress wanted the House of Representatives in the structure, Washington put his foot down. So on a March day in 1797, when Washington came to gaze proudly on the largest house abuilding in America, the workmen and local residents gathered on the site to cheer and praise...