Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of overdramatized scenes, the tensions Jean-Claude causes between Bob and Sheila and Jean-Claude are unpacking his suitcase; their eyes meet and they stare at each other for two full minutes, The boy looks guilty, despite the fact that he does not know he is Bob's son. This excuse for tension is broken when Sheila's daughter enters the room...
...your right you see the mahogany floor divider that separates four brown church-type pews from the rest of the room. They look odd in this beige Zen-like chamber. There is another door at the back through which the witnesses arrive and sit in the pews. You stare up at two groups of fluorescent lights on the ceiling. They are on. The paint on the ceiling is peeling...
...Rubinstein onstage was to witness a master in his element. Striding purposefully to the keyboard while acknowledging the welcoming cheers, he would sit down, adjust the tails of his formal coat, tilt his face upward at about a 45° angle and stare intently into the middle distance as he composed himself. Then the great hands would rise from his sides and come down on the keyboard. The piano, with its intricate mechanism of strings and hammers, would cease to be a percussion instrument when Rubinstein caressed it; in his hands, it sang...
...commander of the Hungarian freedom fighters, was as tall as Andropov and could look him straight in the eye. He found Andropov's stare mesmerizing and began to wonder whether he had "found the right man" to work out a deal. The two went upstairs to Andropov's office, where the Soviet Ambassador proposed that negotiations start the next day on Soviet troop withdrawals from Hungary...
...here, his tawdry character is so grandly portrayed that O'Toole becomes bigger than the rest of the film. Don't let the credits fool you--O'Toole takes a Swan dive but comes up playing nothing less than O'Toole. He still has that slightly pathetic, glassy-eyed stare that refuses to acknowledge the presence of either camera or audience. But this performance has a new focus. Rather than underscoring his decline by clinging to heroic roles (as Swann does). O'Toole confronts his age directly and triumphs over it. He emerges rejuvenated from My Favorite Year--reborn...