Word: gazing
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Marcelo Bielsa, Argentina's cerebral coach, has spent a great deal of his time lately staring at the ground. This is not the defensive, deferential gesture of a shy man reluctant to look you in the eye. No, this is the intense, searching gaze of a man who expects at any moment to find something valuable?treasure, car keys, enlightenment?two feet in front of his shoes. As his World Cup squad played back-to-back friendly matches against Japanese club sides last Tuesday, Bielsa paced along the sideline, glaring at the carefully manicured grass like some demented botanist...
...town that taught us that no place is beyond terrorism's reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December...
...others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze casually off-camera. - Hoberman, "Bad Movies...
...gaze into a crystal ball and try to imagine what historians who will be here in the future will hope to find here,” she says...
Indolent afternoons are spent dipping in the pool, the only activity possible once the temperature reaches a scorching 45?C. But valuable sightseeing time is not wasted?from the deck chairs, guests can gaze up at the magnificent whitewashed silhouette of the 900-year-old Gawdawpalin Pagoda, or between dips stroll through the garden to visit a pair of 11th century temples, one of which houses a well-tended golden Buddha. It's a place to get away from it all, literally. "It would be easier to take tea with the Queen," says Voss, "than to get a phone call...