Word: gazing
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...author's secret appears to be the steadiness of his gaze. He looks straight at whatever he is describing, concentrating utterly (for a chapter or only a sentence or two) on, say, why bears are more dangerous than tigers in animal acts, or on the merry custom of "choosing day," when carny couples pair up. Or on the night toward the novel's end (and it may be toward Hope's end as well) when the hero's teenage daughter talks to him by his bedside for 12 hours and more, telling him about the time in Rome when...
...Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved for junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras...
...blooded young American businessman. If not for the opening credit sequence in which a prepubescent Gerald watches his mother dress up for a theater performance, the audience would have no indication of Gerald's special interest. He merely seems a young go-getter with an especially intense, heavy-lidded gaze...
...time, writes Caro, designers and architects came from all over Europe to gaze at this wonder. An Englishman summed up their verdict: "The finest seashore playground ever given the public anywhere in the world...
...money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur of hip was attached to them...