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...revealing Middle-American desperation, the panic at knowing one has to get through the day. Even when he plays the sweetest people, he creates a roiling emotional subtext. There is odd stuff going on inside; he's wild and weird at heart. So he will furrow his brow and gaze doggily at the speaker, as if he's trying hard to listen to your problems so his head won't explode from all of his. Yet he can see the humor in himself. Says Shirley MacLaine, his co-star in Guarding Tess: "Nic winks at his own intensity...
Through my goggles, I glanced at the end of the runway, only a few hundred feet away. Returning my gaze to the F-14 sitting directly in front of me, I saw the pilot return the deck officer's salute and then, in an instant, the jet bolted from its position with lightning acceleration and flew from the carrier...
...Years of Chinese Painting," the viewer confronts two magisterial images. On the left is an unusual dark brown stone, known as a scholar's rock, valued in Chinese artistic tradition for its elegant natural form and its power to render the viewer's glance into a contemplative, even mystical gaze. On the right stands a wide stone relief of the serene Buddha with his attendant Bodhisattvas: enlightened beings destined to help the Buddha's followers reach Nirvana, on either side...
...Memorial at the other, and with the Washington Monument marking the center. On its flanks are groves of trees, clusters of monuments, even museums. But its central vista is an astonishment of economy. Stand at Lincoln's feet and you can see all the way to the Capitol, your gaze interrupted by nothing but the majestic spike of the Washington Monument...
...McVeigh, suspects that co-conspirators may still be unidentified and believes the government acted too aggressively in handling the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge. But the first candidates for the jury left no doubt about their feelings as to the proper penalty if he is convicted. McVeigh s gaze grew steely as they told the lawyers that if he is convicted, he should face the death penalty. Selection of 12 jurors and six alternates is expected to take about two weeks...