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...gave my computer an angry stare this past Tuesday afternoon. I had a 17-page paper due Friday and an inbox full of unanswered mail. But my computer was not sitting in its customary spot my desk. It was packed in a cardboard box at the University Information Systems (UIS) parking lot in Allston...
...movie's emblematic sequence, a horse named Pilgrim and an actor-director named Robert Redford stare at each other--the former nervously, the latter reassuringly. They're both handsome creatures, and the high Montana plain where this confrontation takes place is pretty too. But really, folks--endless minutes of screen time devoted to this silent, essentially motionless sequence? You get the feeling that someone is indulging himself and that his name isn't Pilgrim...
...thrill of satisfying my vanity has worn off, and the whistles and stares just make me feel like a spectacle. So when a slightly deranged homeless man mutters, "I'd like to have me some of that," I answer him with a stare so cold he backs off fearfully...
...which sparks a discussion of whether clothes should be important at all. Even with my explanation, the other students can't help sneaking peeks at me during the section. One boy, who came late and missed the explanation, can't keep his eyes off of me. Unlike the bold stares of yesterday, however, his stare comes in spurts, as if he's trying not to let me see him stare. Almost worse than invisible, I feel like a shrine, too holy for mortal eyes...
...search off into the distance, grimy and determined. Where is he looking? What is he feeling? And, for the love of Pete, just who is this John "Muggsie" Kelly that he rates his own monument on prime Harvard Square property, earning a momentary glance (if not a full-fledged stare) from thousands of pedestrians daily...