Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double standard. But there was more: the Israelis were actually parked there, just outside the camps, with all of their tradition, with all the edifice of Jewish morality. The Christians blasted away for a night and a day and a night, and the Jews with the guns averted their gaze...
Chances are that after Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics includes a typical lecture in Ec 10, he will never gaze into Sanders Theater and see 900 lit matches held high in a rock concert expression of gratitude. but chances seem as slim that he will ever deliver a lecture that is not followed by applause. "It turns a (Professor) on," Eckstein explains. "Anyway, I like...
...sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears...
What makes this enterprise even more remarkable is that it arose under the once impassive gaze of the three major networks. For three decades they ruled television news without serious threat and smugly claimed that no one else could put together the resources to compete. Ted Turner has challenged them at their own game, and made them flinch. Suddenly ABC, CBS and NBC are providing or planning
With visions of herpes sores clouding each new encounter, would-be lovers who used to gaze romantically into each other's eyes now look for the telltale blink or averted glance of the dissembling herpetic. One male skeptic even called the best friend of a woman he wanted to sleep with and asked if his intended had the disease. In the new etiquette of the ailment, a direct question ("You don't have herpes, do you?") is regarded as tacky. Standard openings have evolved. "You would tell me if you had anything I could catch, wouldn't you?" is admired...