Word: stare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sightless windows stare the empty street...
...cyclical, some parts being decidedly less irrelevant than others, Chem 20 ebbs and flows at perpetual middle tide. It make sense to record all or nothing. For the conscientious student, Chem 20 is the university's only three-notebook course. For others Chem 20 turns into a seance. They stare entranced at the C's, O's, H's, and N's and wait for some mystical finger to arrange them in a more significant pattern...
Into this somber setting comes Isabel (Bujold), a girl passing unsteadily into womanhood. Returning to the family's 200-year-old farmhouse for the funeral of her mother, she reluctantly stays on to tend her aged uncle (Gerard Parkes), a walking reflection of her long-gone relatives, who stare down eerily from faded photographs on the wall. With the spring thaw come the chills: the specter of her dead brother looming in the doorway, a face glowing in the darkened pantry, a bloody, headless chicken twitching in the melting snow...
...tiny traffic island at the juncture of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which symbolize and summerizes its disparate parts...
...trouble to fit in a squash court and a bowling alley, as well as an extra sauna. Family compounds, such as the Rockefellers' 3,500-acre complex near Tarrytown, may also go in for an 18-hole golf course. All this avoids those tense country clubs, where mere millionaires stare...