Word: stared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back to the Broadway Garage, staffed by the nice guy whom I see all too often, I realize that I should have bought more food. I can only heft so many bags back to the Square, but the benefits to my life expectancy of making trips less frequently stare me in the face every time I see a feeble left-hand blinker making a right turn...
...position where he can gratify every craving for kinky sex, fast cars, and groovy karaoke, Eddie is appealingly unattached to anything but self-preservation. Tagawa's imposing frame and iron stare give Eddie a menacing lusty edge missing from Crichton's version...
...face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...
...sleepy-eyed star and representatives of Spy get together soon, it won't be to swap Separated at Birth stories but to stare one another down in court. Seagal, a sixth-degree black belt in aikido, is steamed by the prospect of a blistering profile written by John Connolly, a former New York City police detective. The article, to be published this week, alleges that Seagal associates with gangsters and that he offered money to ex-intelligence agents to have one of his adversaries entrapped and two others murdered...
Thom Jones' first book is a sheaf of extraordinary short stories, most of them about scarred, damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving...