Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constant fear, the moments of horror and exhilaration in combat, with the tranquil landscape beyond the beach. It is a vision by Edvard Munch imposed on a romantic painting from la Belle Epoque. Some of the veterans, now mainly in their 60s, simply sit down on the beach and stare out to sea. For others, the contrast between recollection and reality, that old trick of time, brings tears to the eyes...
...trying to change the rules of celebrityhood after they had become household faces. Author Thomas Pynchon, 46, apparently anticipated this problem during his adolescence. The only photograph of him to surface publicly shows a typical American teen-age male circa mid-1950s: crew cut, protuberant ears and a sleepy stare. Since then, nothing, not even a forwarding address; rumor has him spending a lot of time in Southern California. An eerie question arises: How did the young Pynchon know that his writings would one day set readers off on a quest to find him? His prescience has proved remarkable...
when our eyes met, the adults would turn their heads or stare downwards. The most frustrating aspect of the journey to Leningrad proved to be my inability to converse with anyone. Even in the Hotel, the employees there met me--it seemed--very coolly and remained at a distance...
Poverty is everywhere. At night I would stare into Russian apartments, through street-level windows, and gaze at the chipped paint, the broken couch, the dingy, dreary, stone floors...
They saw their first bobsled race, on television, during the Innsbruck Games in 1976-and they were hooked. Bobsledding on Taiwan? On a subtropical island? "People stare at us a lot," says one Taiwan delegate. Undeterred, Wu Chung-chou, 27, and his brother Wu Dien-cheng, 25, keep in shape running and lifting weights and come to race in key European competitions. Their major complaint: lack of up-to-date equipment. They drive an old Italian-made two-man sled. "The equipment of all the participants should be the same," said the younger Wu. "But for a country without...