Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaten and murdered by racist in the Boston area, the Ku Kluk Klan ahs rallied here. Jerry Falwell has spoken on the Harvard campus. Harvard Black students fear for their safety when travelling in Boston. Black enrollment is at its lowest in 13 years, and South African apartheid issues stare us in the face-yet no one can recall even one letter from these same Black students on any of these subjects. Why are some Blacks so quickly inclined to raise their pens against other Blacks or Black efforts when they have a record of silence on issues of racism...
...more than five hours, the huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband...
...stifling oppressiveness of the totalitarian world, there is no escape--only alienation. When the cup of satire is drained and the bracing giddiness wears off, we are left to stare at the bottom which holds nothing but tragedy...
Their feathers are a funereal black, and their beady, deep red eyes stare out of bald, orange heads. Their great hooked beaks seem as fearsome as scimitars and can make mincemeat of the toughest carrion. As they soar overhead on wings that can extend more than nine feet, they look like oversize buzzards, which in fact is what they are. Yet, despite their ugliness, they have captured the fancy of animal lovers everywhere...
...their political ardor. But Nessa has become a radical feminist who "had to give up sleeping with my oppressors" and has taken up with a girlish member of her back-up group (Holly Hunter again). Nessa's litany of "Heavy"s and "Oh, wow"s, her laser-beam stare and the brightest, most intimidating smile since Sissy Spacek's identify her as a spirit of the '60s. For the others, life is more complicated, the vision more blurred. Doe even daydreams about returning to Manhattan, "where the radiators hiss in whiter and I never see the horizon...