Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head is the size, shape and texture of a bowling ball, has called for a volunteer to demonstrate the power. After a moment, a rugged fellow in his 30s agrees to participate. "Think of something specific and personal," says the lecturer. The younger man agrees and the two men stare ahead, rapt in concentration. But something is wrong. As the young man narrows his gaze, the lecturer shows signs of agitation, of discomfort, of pain, agony-sploooosh! The bowling-ball head explodes, the meeting ends in panic, and the young man-who we now realize is a renegade scanner-vaults...
...children of Canton, there is still time to be young. In this city beside the Pearl River where the silvery sound of bicycle bells fills the air, the children seem less influenced by the official doctrine than by their own personalities. Some stare at foreigners in curiosity or amusement; others screech and run away. They play beside the river at being soldiers, and they imitate their mothers, carrying their younger brothers on their backs...
Even today, many decades after they were unveiled before an uncomprehending world, the early works of the modernists retain the power to startle. Picasso's cubist women stare out from the canvas with the faces of monsters in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
Likenesses of Abraham Lincoln stare down from monuments and up from pennies and $5 bills; his mythic face is surely one of the most familiar in history. Yet no two of the 120 known surviving photographs of him look exactly alike, a fact surprisingly documented in The Face of Lincoln (Viking; 201 pages; $75). Editor James Mellon spent years combing the country for Lincoln pictures; when original plates or negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs...