Word: stared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surprisingly, all the portraits are of women, yet it is not surprising that they were done by men. The men are signified by objects such as musical instruments and bottles. None of the women stare out at the viewer. Even Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl, which is the only complete frontal portrait in the show, has eyes covered with aquamarine paint, making her eyeslits seem like precious stones. As girlish as she looks, she seems on the verge of womanhood. Picasso's Woman in a Turkish Costume dissects the sitter and renders her face with the same ostentation...
...sharply with the cold reality of the present. The film brilliantly captures these ironies of Henry's transformation. In one tense scene, Henry orders one of his old thieving comrades, Bardolph, to be hanged. The poor man looks straight at Henry and as the young king returns the piercing stare, we see the contradictions of Henry's ascension to royalty...
Sunlight filters in through the large windows, reflecting off the empty wooden tables. A few students, sitting alone, stare outside or read quietly as they...
Parents can attend classes, tour buildings, attend receptions, go to football games or stare at the Museum of Comparative Zoology's famed glass flowers for two days, according to association director Ellen Hatfield Towne...
...decorate President Rudenstine's house. Imagine how excited he'll feel to look out his window the next morning to see little fluffy bits of paper hanging to his trees! "It's snowing!" he'll exclaim, darting out his front door with his robe and bunny slippers to stare in amazement. Just picture the tourists mobbing in for a shot of that...