Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals. Their own lives become a part of an experience much broader than just joblessness or being on the dole. The camera catches a sallow man from the side, his face deeply pocked. On the other side of his profile a woman with an oval face and a lopeyed gaze explains her situation in a Bronx accent: "My father I don't know since I'm six years old. He's in the army...My mother gave me a little money and told me to go hang myself or commit suicide." Later on in the emergency interview--they're broke...
Synoptic Vision. Cavafy possessed that power. With a pagan selection of detail-the gaze of an eye, the tilt of a head -he evokes the ardor of youthful flesh as tunelessly as does a frieze on a Grecian urn. Indeed, Cavafy introduces the shapers of the ancient world-the Ptolemies, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony-as if they were embarking on their adventures this very day. Simultaneously, he moves contemporary people backward into the total stillness of history so that they seem to have been formed in the ruins of Pompeii. Except for Yeats, no modern poet has surpassed Cavafy...
...selfsame uncle seizes his wife and shakes her furiously when, while promenading, she gazes about her at a glorious sunset. Clara finds this reaction extreme but correct: "Most authorities do maintain that a lady ought not to divert her gaze from the direction in which she is walking." Still, her uncle need not have raged; "a word-at most a frown -would have sufficed...
...Kenneth Clark known to millions of television viewers (Civilisation; The Romantic Rebellion) is the very portrait of composure. His U voice and elegant gaze-aimed levelly at the masterpieces and just slightly down upon his culture-hungry audience-seem capable of expressing anything but doubt. Who could guess that behind this aplomb a second Kenneth Clark lurks, irreverent, funny and tortuously complex? Another Part of the Wood, in effect, is an autobiographical ambush brilliantly staged by this Clark against his camera...
...under the benevolent gaze of Derek Bok's official portrait Smith fought clean and hard, 480 alumni and students cheered, and the spitting, snarling Alicea dropped a split decision after eight rounds...