Word: gazing
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...luxurious freedom of the weekend when there is nothing pressing to do. It is a time to lean close and talk hushedly of whatever debauchery one saw or did the night before. Perhaps to brush one’s slept-on and rearranged hair to the side and gaze conspiratorially at a good friend or, better, a lover. Brunch at Metro allows for the requisite lingering over one’s meal, but the déjeuner menu promises to be much more in print than what arrives at the palate...
...images through modern eyes, finding sex where the Victorians saw only creamy innocence. But however you might describe Carroll's famous picture of Alice, 7, costumed as a sultry beggar girl, girlish is not the word. Her liquid posture, that off-the-shoulder dress, the frank suction of her gaze--innocence this luscious could almost have an R rating. From here to the foxy cowgirl outfits of JonBenet Ramsey isn't a stretch. While Prose doubts that Carroll was an active pedophile, she does not deny the erotic longing in his pictures. "Where do we draw the line between...
...kosher. But the recent reversal of that position demonstrates that the present administration is a mite more concerned about anti-military bias at elite universities than was its predecessor. If Rumsfeld wants to overcome the institutional rules through which that bias has become entrenched, he should not limit his gaze to the law school...
...confront the strategy of faint condemnation. A condemnation this perfunctory, this ritualistic, so immediately abandoned, condemns nothing and no one. The thought seems to be, “Ideally, Palestinians would not be killing them; but we cannot allow the fact that they are killing them to divert our gaze for more than a moment from the plight of the Palestinians...
That philosophy allows patrons and staff alike to circumvent the tired constrictions of conventional barroom etiquette. Berkow says, “Men are always going to stare at people in bars, but at this place, you call them on it.” She, for example, would douse gaze-happy males with lines like: “Stop staring at me. But if you’re gonna keep staring at me, which you inevitably are, you might as well buy me a drink...