Word: stare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children's classics: A Dog of Flanders (1959) and Misty (1961). In all three pictures Radnitz & Co. have provided sentiment without sentimentality and a moral without a lecture. This time they also provide some smashing scenery-the Anchor Bay country of northern California-without too pointedly stopping to stare at it. And they provide two remarkably attractive performers. Celia Kaye, in her first film, makes the most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing. And the actor who plays the mongrel-his name is Junior, and he is the son of the dog who played Old Yeller for Walt...
First it was suffrage, next cigarettes, and then man's final inalienable rights: to know baseball, follow the market, haggle over prices, talk and be heard, swagger, stare, shout at will and stay out all night. And with women behind their wheels, at their desks and in their way, with their razors confiscated and even their private clubs invaded, men conceded defeat, loosened their belts and handed over their pants as well...
Plunging Roots. Socony Mobil uses films in a fine game for teenagers. Thirty-six kids at once sit in drivers' seats, hold steering wheels, adjust themselves to brakes and accelerators, and stare at a road ahead of them which is shown on small, individual screens. With a whoosh and voom, they're off, all 36 zinging up the same road in a contest to see who is the most economical and safest driver. They are graded electronically as they meet situations-a school bus discharging its tender cargo, an idiot driver warping and woofing all over the right...
...Wharton was 63 and Fitzgerald 28. She had written him a letter praising The Great Gatsby and invited him and Zelda to her country home for tea. Zelda refused to go; she was damned, she said, if she would travel 50 miles from Paris to let an old lady stare at her and make her feel provincial. According to Biographer Arthur Mizener, Fitzgerald, fortified with alcohol and determined not to be put down as a provincial, went alone. Their conversation, as he recalled later, went something like this...
...stare...