Word: stared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GRANDFATHER, father and uncle are members of the Owl Club. There is a photograph of the Owl Club of 1955 in our family living room. When visitors examine the picture, we ask them to identify the man standing next to my father. They stare, smile, and recognize the boyish face of Teddy Kennedy...
...cumulative effect of the paintings that make up half the exhibition is an abstraction of abstraction. Philip Taafe's Combine painting is a series of regular waves cascading across the canvas, the kind that gives you a headache if you stare at them too long--but behind them are elements of other paintings, pastel shapes, perhaps a flower. Whatever it is, it's unreadable...
...this time over who would play her in a four-part nbc version of Anastasia shot in Vienna for broadcast this winter. According to Amy Irving, the producers picked her first. When she passed, the role was offered to Nastassja Kinski. Then, for reasons as inscrutable as Rasputin's stare, Kinski was out and Irving was back in. Why? Olivia de Havilland, who plays Anastasia's grandmother, notes that Irving "looks very much like Anna Anderson." Kinski is not talking. Irving cites the signing-on of Rex Harrison, who plays Grand Duke Cyril and with whom she co-starred...
...clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...
...asked a Parisian or a New Yorker in 1886 what sculpture was, the answer (after a short blank stare) would have been: statues. Statuary, to borrow the mordant phrase of Claes Oldenburg many decades later, was "bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from...