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...another based on passing observations of dress or manner. In Sacred Heart, the finest story in the collection, a girl named Sarah grows fascinated by a mysterious new classmate, Amanda. "She wore silver bracelets embedded with chunks of turquoise," notes Sarah, "and she would cross her legs and stare into space in a way that suggested she lived a dark and troubled life." Amanda eventually loses her mystique, of course, but through her the heroine fashions a singular identity...
Thien T. Huynh '97, a former summer work-study technician at the lab, says that in one particular 11-day study the subject had to stare at a picture of an eye on the wall for 10 minutes, rest for five to 10 minutes, and then look at the picture again for 10 minutes...
...hero whose remaining arm is strong enough "to cut food, which I can't do." Dole is particularly perturbed by the superfluous inside button on men's trousers. "I wish it could be Velcro or something," he says. Then why button it in the first place? Dole's stare is withering: "I'm the kind of guy that if that thing isn't buttoned, even if no one else knows it because they can't see it, then I still know it and I can't perform...
David Armstrong, for example, creates elegant, formal pictures of his friends and lovers. The black and white photography and the careful posed manner of his subjects call to mind traditional portraiture. Yet the slow, intent stare of the subjects conveys a sense of the connection between the artist and the people he photographed. In this way, he achieves a kind of autobiographical gesture in his work...
Passersby who stopped to stare at the white picket fences which mysteriously appeared in the Yard last night were probably unaware that the fences actually spell out a message in DNA code...