Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pillbox hat -- to her already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature (5 ft. 10 in. in the half heels she favors) and a steady green- eyed gaze -- bespeak a sense of authority and a sociability that enabled her to be mayor of rambunctious San Francisco for nine turbulent years, from 1978 to the end of 1987. "People sometimes misjudge me. I am very much a street person," Feinstein claims. "I know, I don't look like...
...Georgia native typically slips into the manner of a practiced but informal public speaker, adopting a rock-steady, straight-ahead gaze when thinking--he never loses his train of thought. And not far from sight is a disarming grin, shot through with the confidence imparted by youthful success and good schooling...
When an interview in the tale asks Robertson,"What's the future of Women's Studies/WorldDomination?" she writes, "I began to explainfeminist film theory and the male gaze--perhapsbecause I felt I was under it. The return of therepressed from Women's Studies 10d: The Curse ofAlice Jardine. As you might imagine, this did notgo over as well as it would have in a blackleather-jacketed crowd...
...decrepit U.S. veterans hospital in Born on the Fourth of July. In a forgotten corner of Ha Bac province, about 40 miles from Hanoi, 200 Vietnamese army veterans, many paralyzed from the waist down, eke out their lives in a primitive government shelter. Tucked away from the nation's gaze, they are among more than 10,000 severely wounded veterans from the four wars Vietnam has fought since 1945. An additional 300,000 disabled soldiers are scattered throughout Vietnam, doing the best they can without the help of the government. In wheelchairs, the ex- soldiers at Ha Bac move quietly...
...suggesting that we abolish spring formals. All you hand-fondling, back-massaging, emotionally adjusted gaze-into-each-other's-eyes couples--please, go spend lots of money and dance to music I can't comprehend. But please don't invite me when you know I can't get a date and then act surprised when you find out that I already know what courses I'm taking next fall...