Word: squints
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...have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William Hurt's eyes move like restless laser beams; Tom Berenger's search the room in masked desperation, trying to crib emotions from his quicker, less guarded friends. No joke or gesture...
...manufacturers have replied that they are indeed concerned about visual fatigue and have made suggestions on how to modify environmental conditions like glare. Until employers agree to institute those changes, however, some VDT users may just have to squint and bear...
...forgers' skills, sharpened by greed, malice, political zeal or simply the sheer joy of confounding learned scholars or esteemed institutions, have called into being an opposing set of skills: those of the patient, persistent document sleuths, who squint through magnifying glasses and microscopes at each potential telltale squiggle on yellowed pages or pristine documents in countless offices, from police station houses to great universities and national archives...
...strongest roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...
...Nicaraguans building a proportionally large army, but they are also jogging in the same direction as the Cubans. Except for rather doubtful protestations from the Sandinistas that "not a single foreign soldier" serves in their nation, nobody bothered to challenge the Administration's information. After all, if you squint hard, those specks could be tanks, and it would make some sense if Cuba, proud armorer of Third World leftists, were supplying them...