Word: gazing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...superpower leaders sat across from each other last week at the bargaining table in an elegant salon in Geneva, Ronald Reagan implored Mikhail Gorbachev to join him in his dream of "rendering nuclear weapons obsolete" with a space-based missile defense system. Coldly fixing Reagan in his gaze, Gorbachev would have none of it. "It's not convincing. It's emotional. It's a dream. Who can control it? Who can monitor it? It opens up an arms race in space...
...such solutions, we as citizens and individuals have too long hidden behind the excuse that their implementation would not be economically feasible. If we used just a fraction of the $100 billion that our government spent on the Star Wars weapons programs, imagine what we could achieve. Casting our gaze across the Atlantic, we can see that it is eminently possible to implement plans for the future without jeopardizing the present. Germany, for instance, has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent before our 20th reunion, and Britain has promised to reduce gas emissions by 60 percent...
...Double Happiness follows the workings of this assembly line. In the first section the women are presented in small, uncomfortable groups, preparing themselves for the potential humiliation of the selection process. Some appear surprisingly old?more, startlingly young?and almost all avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures...
...bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect Yi achieves by altering the proportion of water to ink on his brush. Animals and birds also make symbolically important appearances throughout the exhibition, which opens under the gaze of a lively 9th century temple carving of a tiger, the protective symbol of Korea. Cranes, which symbolize longevity, are well represented, too. In The Moon and Two Cranes in the Middle of Bamboos, the birds are beautifully rendered in black ink, colored pigment and gold in a hanging scroll from...
...Please wake up. Please pay attention. I’m begging you.” She had an intense gaze and an earnest face, and she had placed herself directly between me and Pinker’s next lecture...