Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name Peter Sellers has undergone something of the same transformation. The late movie comedian was a hero of sorts, forever skirmishing with a legion of enemies of the quizzical stare and the faraway gaze. And now his near-namesake, Peter Sellars '80, has devised a monumental gesture to commercial fantasies in his new American Repertory Theater production of Handel's opera Orlando, at the Loeb Drama Center...
...countryside as often as possible "for a bit of peace." On Sundays the parents of Belfast can put the city at their backs for a while and drive south to the Mournes, where the hill sheep flock like gulls, or north to the coast of Antrim, to stare across at Scotland. You don't see much of the army in the countryside, except around the Maze; and even that place, 13 miles from town, is partly hidden from view by a pasture and a golf course. Otherwise it is all peace and greenery: swans preening on the lake shores; hedges...
Like squires crowding around a knight before a joust, the people huddle around the guy pressing the Fire button. The cynics stand back, sipping their icy Cokes like isolated exjousters grinning in their ale. All stare at the machines, not at each other. The glare stifles even the noisy. These would-be heroes can forge only a cold camaraderie as they pursue their isolated quests. Searches for ever more tenuous shadow. People enter an arcade together. Inside, they separate...
...allows Louise's strength to emerge through her decisions to follow Jack and fight him, to walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard Sylbert to Editors Dede Allen and Craig McKay...
Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem...