Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operetta rarely lags. For one, Brown has spruced-up the longer songs with clever shticks at one side of them: language-lab subtitles for a scene sung in Italian and a caricature-in-process to accompany a song about feminine perfection. For another, it's never tiresome just to stare at Martha Eddison's stylish costumes; they have a funky, continental allure rarely seen outside the pages of a fashion magazine and a few tables in the Adams House dining hall...
...Knesset, the 58-58 tie vote was inevitable. His bad leg propped on a hassock under the bench, Begin could not look behind him to see how Druckman had voted. His Deputy Prime Minister, Simcha Ehrlich, broke the news to him. Begin then turned in his seat, grimacing, to stare at Druckman for a moment. When Savidor announced the vote, Begin rose to his feet without using his cane. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "I must call a Cabinet meeting now, and therefore I ask for a recess...
...proposed budget for fiscal 1983. The President's men look at Capitol Hill and argue, in the words of one, "We have to let the process up there cook a while longer. It needs to bake some." Convinced that a projected $96.4 billion federal deficit is unacceptable, Republicans stare back at the White House, hoping for a sign of presidential compromise. Gleefully eyeing the disarray within the G.O.P., the Democrats sit back and wait nervously for the Republicans to try to quell the rebellion in their ranks...
...summary of her childhood she explained: "There was a world of things, in which everything had its name and place, and there was a world of words, in which everything came to life." Sylvia Townsend Warner never outgrew that childhood. All her long life she retained the level innocent stare that sees so much more than just innocence. This strangely sophisticated child taught herself how to describe the ordinary with precision and wonder and a certain elegance, until even an adult could see that absolutely nothing, in the end, is ordinary...
...back row of a classroom, or peering through a pawnshop window, or avoiding the camera's eye on the 10 o'clock news. They are faces too tough to be scared and too unsure to be anything else. They hold mocking, omniscient mouths and a tough-guy stare that could burn a hole in an adult's best intentions. They are the faces of the young urban underclass...