Word: gazing
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...Millennium Dome, you might think they could at least produce an dramatic innovator on the order of Peter Brook for the turn of the century. But rather than face the years ahead straight-on, the powers that be on the West End have chosen to turn their gaze every way but forward...
...enough to break the vise of bad luck and bad choices. Harris' geographic specificity in telling the story (variations on the refrain "just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian") only intensifies the sense of isolation and loneliness, and in moments such as these her unflinching gaze and lovely, weary delivery carry the day, or perhaps in this case, the night...
...maddeningly modest about it too. A few months ago, he was in a waiting room at a television station with Shane Gould, Australia's princess of the pool in Munich, 1972. She was showing him her Olympic medals and, noting his gaze, told him, "You'll have a bunch of your own soon." Thorpe replied, "I'd be happy with...
...maddeningly modest about it too. A few months ago, he was in a waiting room at a television station with Shane Gould, Australia's princess of the pool in Munich, 1972. She was showing him her Olympic medals and, noting his gaze, told him, "You'll have a bunch of your own soon." Thorpe replied, "I'd be happy with...
...grown up and on my own, I watch the kids on my Manhattan street trot off to their first days of school, clad in their still-flawless little khakis and colorful shirts. I gaze longingly at their brand-new Elmo backpacks, until their parents catch me staring and shoot me a dirty look, hooking a protective arm around their offspring and hurrying them along a bit faster...