Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klux Klan, contributed $100 to Farrakhan's cause in a not-so-odd gesture of alliance. Haters know haters. But who make up these seething crowds? What are they like alone with their minds? Their minds were not searched at the doors. Who was that woman with the ecstatic gaze? Your daughter's teacher...
...largely unrecognized performance is turned in by Jan and Nick's dog, who (and wouldn't you know it?) isn't listed in the credits. Since it is difficult to write dialogue for animals, and the screen-writers stopped just short of having animals talk, this dog's deadpan gaze earns perhaps the best laughs of the film...
...like pornography, terrorist television, the graphic unfolding of evil on camera, sells. During the hostage crisis, network news ratings rose markedly. But this fascination has its price. Lot's wife fixed her gaze on evil and turned to salt...
...later phases. Found at the most celebrated of all Maya sites, Chichen Itza in Yucatan, the semireclining statue is a splendid example of the Chacmools found guarding the entrances of temples. Typically, the male figure leans back on his elbows, pulls up his knees and turns a forbidding gaze on intruders at the sacred gates. A flat plate poised on his belly is believed to have been a receptacle for the hearts of human victims in sacrificial rituals...
Carefully, cautiously, determined not to miss the smallest detail this time around, the Brazilian investigators retraced their steps. Under the watchful gaze of foreign observers, gravediggers in the small hillside town of Embu reopened the local cemetery's tomb 321, from which they had exhumed some mysterious remains two weeks earlier, and turned up four more teeth and several bone fragments. On the outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home...