Word: stare
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Outside, leaning against the servants' quarters, a larger-than-life portrait removed from the house serves as target practice for bored soldiers. Other photographs of the leader stare blankly, their eyes gouged out with combat knives or bayonets...
...them we lost our private rooms; out with thebed, in with the double-bunk (happily, SibylBeckett '44 and I had fun, despite the crowding).Breakfast became self service, and rationing tookhold (mournfully did I stare into a fullhalf-gallon of coffee, to view the bottom clear asa coral reef in Tahiti--you had to drink it all toget any kick...
...best in the crunch. When disaster struck in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, those who saw her said she was tearless, perhaps spacy, "with a 50-yard stare." But she knew what she had to do to fulfill her commitment to her husband, her children and her country. Her bright pink suit was soiled with blood and gray matter, but she would not change it or leave John F. Kennedy's body...
...metal, but they convey the symmetry and preposterous nature of surgically enhanced breasts. A montage of porno clips plays on one screen (or nipple, as the case may be). However, a breast implant rests on the screen itself, distorting the image. A plastic casing forces the viewer to stare at the monitor in order to comprehend the video. After an initial shock, the audience becomes conscious of the nature of its gaze: the clinical yet voyeuristic setting renders it incredibly real and perverse. On the other monitor, an educational program informs the viewer of the medical aspects of breast feeding...
...unworldly guardians -- an austere philosopher who spots her true gender and his matronly sister, who doesn't. The production is vividly pretty. What makes it work, though, is its edge, sharper than Shakespeare's in similar plots -- especially when the bamboozled guardians realize they have been cast aside and stare with shame and despair into a slowly fading light...