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...novel Empire of the Sun - and the millions more who saw Steven Spielberg's film version of it - will recognize Ballard's descriptions of the deprivations he suffered at the Lunghua detention camp after the Japanese army overran Shanghai in 1943. They'll recall, too, the blank, dreamlike gaze with which he absorbed the horrors unfolding around him: at the age of 14, he watched as a group of defeated Japanese soldiers, "aware that their own lives would shortly end, and that they were free to do anything they wanted and inflict any pain," casually strangled a Chinese...
...incredibly sexy, but it was more than that. She was singing about Bridget, the saint of childhood, and how she spread her legs, as Markey, too, slid up the pole and spread her legs wide. She kept climbing higher, looking at the audience with that sultry exhibitionist gaze but also reaching up, aiming for something more. It was thrilling and thought-provoking and beautiful, and it was pushing beyond all these into something else, a kind of constant striving. That didn’t just count as art, I realized, spellbound; it embodied it. —Staff writer Lois...
...Through this book," Barbieri-Low writes, "I hope to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China to the men and women who made them." To that end, he's a sapient guide through not only the bustling, state-regulated markets, but back down the production line to the small private workshops where many of the goods - some of them knock-offs of wares made in larger imperial facilities - were produced by conscripts, convicts and slaves as well as free artisans...
...Kazmierczak ascended the steps, Santos and Caspillan threw themselves onto the ground, between the seats. Kazmierczak stopped just there, at Row 7, but apparently keeping his gaze, and aim, at the students who were attempting to leave. "If he'd have just turned around," Santos says, "he would've shot me. I wouldn't be here...
...Craig Venter as your template. You wouldn't choose to put him at risk for Alzheimer's disease, for example, but Venter has a predisposition that places him in danger of it. You might choose his startling blue eyes, both for their color and the hard clarity of their gaze. You'd surely go for his first-rate brain, though you might pass on what his detractors consider the vainglorious temperament that comes bundled with...