Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Astronomers gaze at mysterious structures that challenge current theories...
...voyeuristically. It is, of course, possible to see this as artful irony, given the film's theme, but it feels more like carelessness. Or exploitation. Or simple imitation. For like Eszterhas' somewhat hotter, somewhat smarter Basic Instinct, or the more recent Indecent Proposal, what this movie really wants to gaze upon is high- toned decor, and like its predecessors it treats its female star mainly as part of the furnishings, something that might get scratched or worn down -- rendered, shall we say, unusable. This is bad sexual politics. It is also bad, unsuspenseful moviemaking...
...Beneath the sly gaze of three security guards, it was motored out," said Funke, who added that he thought that neither students nor the guards hired to provide security for the party saw the students remove the object from the house...
...choice of Adolphus Busch Hall as the venue for the play is a significant and felicitous one. The hall itself supports the director's take on the story. Busch Hall's cavernous stone interior contains the entrance to a cathedral and a lofty balcony from which two putti gaze impishly on the audience below. The cathedral door appears to have been taken from a church in Europe and brought whole to the United States, like the Parthenon friezes taken to England by Lord Elgin. This fact supports the play's and the story's vision of imperialistic thievery, where...
...Cara Schmidt surely must think they will make the best possible parents for Jessica, and the child may agree when she is older. But that will be small comfort to her on the morning of April 21 if she wakes up in a completely different house under the loving gaze of strangers...