Word: stared
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...When I stare up from my desk, I don't want to see any printed reproduction of Picasso, nor do I wish to encounter the name of some technical director at the bottom of a movie poster. When I take a hard-earned study break, I like to be greeted by a pretty face. And ladies, if any of you have a fetish for bespectacled Jewish boys, I'd be happy to pose...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...subway, if you stand up and offer your seat to an old woman, this tells your fellow passengers "I come from the South, where our lack of industrialization and continuing resentment of General Sherman are some-times overshadowed by our politeness. Now that I have been polite, please stare at me like I just grew another...
...English and reserved, the other American and outwardly exuberant but secretly troubled--yoked together in an initial ecstasy that eventually subsides into mutual misery. Hughes, in his telling, learns that Plath has brought problems along with her "long, perfect, American legs." He becomes acquainted with her "homicidal/ Hooded stare," her "dybbuk fury" at his alleged failures as husband and father ("What had I done...
...sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma Twiss Epstein, a nanny accused of killing a child in her care, whose weird serenity is the precursor of the affectless stare that fascinated Arbus...