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...example given by Watson, a former lecturer in psychology at the University of London, is the Navy's "Clockwork Orange" experiments in Naples, Italy, and San Diego: wearing a head clamp and with their eyes fixed open, so that they cannot avert their gaze, volunteers were shown gruesome films of dismemberment to break down their opposition to violence. Though the Pentagon denied conducting any such experiments, Watson thinks that his source-a Navy doctor in Naples-was telling the truth...
Beyond the screen, more sake and the music of the samisen. In the courtyard, a ring of dancing girls, stomping about like Dionysiac butterflies under the gaze of their fellow workers on the balcony; and on the left, the bathhouse and the assignation room, where a girl in a bronze-colored robe exhibits one pale, abstract thigh with an air of consummate indifference, while the open door behind her discreetly indicates that her client has just left. Like other screens in the show, this one reminds us that - despite the wonders of democracy and industrial growth - the quality of life...
...Arizona, Hahn learns how not to communicate with a cat. "Because the aggressive posture of the cat is the locked-eye gaze," she is told, "cats will transfer this reaction to humans, and when the stranger says 'Hi!' a cat will, according to its nature, back away or make a threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words...
...certain saints and others with inner resources, there is nothing ennobling about obscurity. Watergate transformed Carl Bernstein from a cigarette-scrounging city-room fixture and superannuated punk into a superb journalist who carries his fame with a self-assured but quizzical grace. Rosalynn Carter has flourished in the public gaze...
...Wolfsons divide their time among their Clermont Farm near Saratoga Springs, New York, a house on Long Island, a condominium in Bal Harbour, Fla., and wherever their horses are running. They are becoming familiar to the racing public as a strikingly handsome couple who like to hold hands and gaze lovingly at each other. Louis keeps his weight down by eating cottage-cheese-and-peaches lunches and doing 15 minutes of calisthenics a day. Patrice has given up her painting under the pressures of racing and of managing the various Wolfson households. "I'm busy being a housewife...