Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candy counter, given the ready availability of the same things nearby. And HSA is, let's be frank, introducing that subtle element of sleazo-commercialism in the foyer of a building with an austere tradition, almost under the venerable antlers of Teddy Roosevelt and within range of the kindly gaze of LeBaron Russel Briggs. Anyone who feels the instinct to preserve whatever charms the Union offers unsullied might as well...
...almost a hermit. He shuns the art-world circuit, living and working in a cluttered container of a brownstone apartment in Manhattan which, in its contents, resembles one of his own boxes. An ironic reclusiveness directs his talk. Conversations are apt to falter and go brown under that sharp gaze. This is part of a strategy common to Samaras' art as well. "People go about," he says, "being nice or un-nice, talking to you with monotonous expectations until you do something to make them stop; then you wait for them to get their balance and you watch them...
...complicated reality and emotions of deSica's film. The Bicycle Thief, as the barefobted man on the right with eyes downcast leans against his bicycle and the stone wall behind him. The elements of the picture are related more than abstractly; the members of the family stand or sit, gaze or turn their heads with an awareness of the others. "The Nets" at Patzcuaro derive from the same community awareness. The woman lays her fifth for more than one; the nets belong to a village that celebrates festivals to the gods, yet fishes for the village welfare...
DANTE, WHOSE OWN GAZE was as resolute in considering his underworld, looms large in the background of Beckett's work. Plato's cave is recalled by the rumor continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join...
...star clusters and the changing luminosity of variable stars led to new means of measuring the vast distances across space and helped to disprove the belief that the earth's sun stood at the center of the universe. During the '40s and '50s he focused his gaze on earthly affairs, vehemently opposing McCarthyism, assaults on academic freedom and a foreign policy built on antiCommunism...