Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really out of it. "A penny saved is a dollar earned," he said. I had kept him in the dark for years about the price of shoes. Whenever I assembled the dollars required to buy new shoes he would gaze at them disapprovingly. "Buying another new car?" he would
...manifestation came during the years of the Holocaust. The people of Le Chambon, by stealth and stubbornness, without violence, at mortal risk, turned their town into a sanctuary for Jewish refugees. They did it, moreover, under the nervous gaze of the Vichy government and in the shadow of a Nazi SS division stationed near by. Thousands of adults and children were saved. Those who could not be concealed were sometimes guided past hostile French police and German troops through the eastern mountains to safety in Switzerland. Years later the state of Israel saluted the work of Le Chambon during...
...rare event for South America, where today elected governments rule in only two of eleven nations, Venezuela and Colombia. Under the gaze of soldiers posted to ward off violence, 1.6 million Ecuadorians went to the polls last week for the first time in eleven years to select the leaders of their small (pop. 7.5 million) Andean country. Their choice for President: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 38, a mild-mannered populist lawyer who won by a smashing 2-to-l ratio, despite a strong right-wing effort on behalf of his conservative opponent, former Quito Mayor Sixto...
...sherlock holmes sleuthing, but unfortunately Sherlock Holmes never shows up--Christopher Plummer does. Dressed in the right clothes, and equipped with the best Dr. Watson ever, Plummer has potential, but he never forgets about that charming scar on his lower lip, that little half-smile, that direct and demanding gaze. Who ever heard of a sexy, suave, passionate Holmes, with blow-dried hair and visible muscles? A new modern Holmes might have worked, but the screenplay stops far short of Conan Doyle's stories, and Bob Clark's heavy-handed direction relies too much on weird music, heavy breathing...
...steel of high quality folded at ninety degree angles. The only thing prettier than ladies as an I-beam painted bright yellow. I told 'em I wanted a big door. A big door in front where a girl could hide her car if she wanted to evade the gaze of her husband the rat poison salesman. You ever been out with a ratpoison salesman? They are fine fellows with little red eyes...