Word: leers
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After 11 years away, elderly writer (and Roth crypto-alter ego) Nathan Zuckerman returns to Manhattan to leer at young ladies, pursue a literary mystery and get his leaky urethra looked at. This is minor Roth--fencing listlessly with the Reaper, Zuckerman is occasionally gruffly touching but mostly just embarrassing. Let him die already...
...vain that I think I brought something unique to the airwaves. In fact, I assume that one reason he had me on was the tantalizing prospect that I might say something scandalous or racy. That, and he and his cronies seemed to enjoy having the occasional guest they could leer...
...fallen Dani warrior. From a short distance, the photograph appears to be quite energetic, if not original; the women’s heads fill the frame and seem to push towards the right side of the photograph. Yet, upon closer examination, it becomes apparent that several of the women leer wearily at the camera. Unlike the playful gazes of the children in other photographs, these women are much less at ease with Rockefeller’s presence at such an emotionally charged event. It becomes clear that Rockefeller is an outsider, intruding and unwanted, over-ambitious to a fault...
...British didn’t catch the August 10 would-be bombers by confiscating their toothpaste—it took months of old-fashioned gumshoe detective work—the day heralded a new set of irrational security restrictions. Our shoeless security circus, where minimally qualified federal screeners leer at passengers and seize fruit blenders, only grows more absurd...
...uncomfortable enough for us non-famous people. The social warfare of “Mean Girls,” meanwhile, looks positively pleasant compared to how it must have felt when the nation’s tabloids had the poor taste (and/or ignorance of basic adolescent development) to leer at teenaged Lohan’s swelling bosom and ask if they spied the work of a surgeon. In between publicly scrutinizing the changing shape of her body, they chronicled the ins and outs of her relationship with sitcom ham Wilmer Valderrama, as if it were news that there was drama...