Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armless and legless young soldiers, learning to use artificial limbs at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, dread going into the streets. One soldier told the New York Times, "We meet three kinds of people. Some are intelligent enough not to stare and ask questions. Some are well meaning and want to do something, but they always say the wrong thing. And then there are the long-nosed gossips who ask us fool questions and try to pry." The veterans asked the U.S. to help them back into a normal existence by observing two rules: 1) don't stare...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...
...Army Signal Corps; RKO-Radio). The subject: war. The purpose: to make war as real as possible to people who will never otherwise experience it. The result is no more entertaining than war is. But from first to last it is impossible not to stare with fascination at this film...
Veronica loved the Count "with the harmonious turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...