Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs, according to Barakat, share a certain basic vocabulary of body language. They stand close together and frequently touch each other in a conversation, and they look each other in the eye constantly, instead of letting their gaze drift to the side as Americans do. Gesturing is done with the right hand, not the "unclean" left...
...most part, however, the 20 infantrymen who hold the firebase simply sit, wait, and gaze up the valley, polishing their weapons and drinking cans of Budweiser beer from the seemingly inexhaustible stock the G.I.s left behind...
...landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted like decaying fungi, in paintings such as Extravagant Lady, 1954 (opposite), are mere coalescences in human form. They are not people but slices of life, and in this perversely microscopic sense Dubuffet is a realist painter. The flat "absurdity" of his gaze on the fallen objects of this world has led to the idea that Dubuffet is not interested in beauty. That is untrue. He claims for his art "another and vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised...
...spurred on by the inscriptions in the three official languages of the empire-Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian-as well as in Egyptian hieroglyphics. In fact, the hieroglyphics say the statue is a "portrait." If that is indeed true, finding the missing head will enable modern man to gaze for the first time upon the full visage of Darius, the King of Kings...
...quicksilver wordsmith in the grand tradition of Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Lorenz Hart. There are three standout numbers. One is Liaisons (Gingold), a lament that courtesans are not the elegantly larcenous creatures they used to be. Equally arresting are Send In the Clowns (Johns), a rueful gaze into the cracked mirror of the middle years, and The Miller's Son (Jamin-Bartlett), a gath-er-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may paean to the flesh...