Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera that has worked this change in the eye of the viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older...
...know Derek Bok. In a little more than eight years as Harvard's 25th president, Bok has carved a niche as an administrative wunderkind, an effective manager of an institution confronted with increasingly limited means. Ask an undergraduate about Bok and you'll probably get a blank stare, a mumble about "open letters" or "hypocrisy." The last thing the average undergrad would say about Bok is that he "cares about students." And although he has visited every house this year to meet undergrads, the gap, he admits, remains...
...attitudes of the officer on the phone and the detective show need of adjustment. They think that women want any and all attention offered them. This is twisted in some people's minds to mean that women provoke men to stare at them, call out to them, and otherwise sexually harrass them. I would like to stress that sexual harrassment is not limited to physical abuse; it includes any attention of a sexual nature that is un-wanted by the recipient or unwarrented by the circumstances that promote it. The attitude of these men is more than wrong...
...even a gag T.M.I. vasectomy kit. "Business was just great last summer," she said. "It'll pick up again when the tourists start coming." And once the weather starts to clear, visitors should be descending upon the area, if what happened last year is any indication. They will stare at the power plant from Met-Ed's observation center, a modernistic facility for tourists built before the accident on a knoll across from the installation...
Unresponsives are too frightened, confused or hostile to discuss matters. Bramson suggests trying to outwait them: stare at them in a friendly fashion, but say nothing. As the growing silence produces anxiety, throw your eyebrows up expectantly. Chances are the unresponsive will break first, particularly if you have practiced coping with awkward silences yourself...