Word: gazing
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...humorless man deflated me. I thought about how mysterious and unaccountable laughter is, and how strange that an incapacity to laugh amounts to a disability. You almost avert your gaze...
...skepticism also comes from the fact that babies already "sign." Without instruction, drilling and repetition, they point, clap, nod their heads and otherwise indicate what they want. The intensity of the communication between an involved parent and baby--meeting the baby's gaze directly, talking to her and following her cues--means that, ideally, the baby is teaching the parent her own signs...
...success to date (as well as in the foreseeable future) is that the three sisters are, to put it simply, gorgeous. Movie-star gorgeous. Stab-your-friend-in-the-back-for-their-smile gorgeous. And, yes, buy-their-assembly-line-trash-music gorgeous. Fight the impulse; if you must gaze at the Corrs, buy a poster, not their album. It's easier to stare at them when that bad pop music isn't distracting you anyhow...
This is an institution that exists solely to promote the development of health, literacy, wealth and education in the poorest two-thirds of our world. They tackle debt-relief and malaria while the rest of us navel-gaze our way through the status quo. So in my mind it doesn't matter if Harvard academics now have an opportunity through the center to communicate their ideas to and explore new solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter...
...speeds in his Lincoln convertible, driving with one hand on the wheel and the other around a beer. He described the sex life of his bulls in intricate, ribald detail. He also, by his own account, spent time in the oak grove where his ancestors were buried. He would gaze down at the Pedernales River and ponder those things a rancher and a President must ponder...