Word: gazes
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...Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays about Vietnam (Streamers)--works on a much smaller canvas here. He immerses us in clinical details--like the doctor's careful instructions...
There are moments in every class when students' attention wanes, moments when their collective gaze begins to linger on the ornamental drapes, the retro linoleum, that cute blonde in the front...
...rapid-fire production makes impossible the emotional or psychological depth vital to such a piece. Shifting moods and genres so rapidly, Woyzeck leaves little with which to identify or empathize; it frustrates the audience more than it maintains their gaze...
...fact, many science concentrators gaze to front of their section only to discover an undergraduate Teaching Fellow wielding the chalk: someone not much older--maybe even younger--than themselves...
...Madonna's favorite designers, Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her legs are slightly spread, but the voyeuristic gratification usually afforded us by such images is denied by our recognition of the opaque, flesh-toned tights which ascend from a seam at Sherman's toes. Here, Sherman subverts the salacious gaze that Ritts' photographs of naked male or female models never fail to satisfy...