Word: stared
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Which would you rather do--read a book or stare at a computer screen? For most people, it is physically leas taxing to get their information the traditional...
...stare at the glorified light bulb known as a monitor for only so long before the eye muscles begin to retaliate. And therefore, when people ask me for advice on the purchase of a new computer, I usually emphasize that the monitor they choose be ergonomically sound...
...would have imagined that it would be the pleasantly vibrating sound of the large vacuum that shoos away the leaves in Kirkland's courtyard? Fortunately for me, I can sit in my bed, stare at my very decorated ceiling, and meditate to the rhythm of the vacuum thing until my first class...
...tries to stare down Saddam, Saddam keeps an eye on U.S. foreign policy and draws encouraging conclusions. "He saw what the North Koreans got after creating a crisis," says a high-ranking Israeli military official. "He saw what the dictator in Haiti managed to get from Clinton. All Saddam wants to do is repeat the recipe." And to stay in power, unlike those who defeated him. As the Israeli notes, "The fact that Bush, Thatcher, Shamir and Gorbachev are all gone, while Saddam is in office, is evidence to him that he was right and they were wrong...
...statement so at odds with his rough-edged accomplishment that it obscures its own point. Frank is the genius of the marginal and the unofficial. The nondescript corner of some ratty diner in South Carolina, the smudged window that opens onto the dreariest rooftops in Butte, Montana, the vacant stare of an elevator operator in Miami Beach -- these are things the Swiss-born Frank decided were central to comprehending his adopted nation. Important is a funny word to attach to a man so suspicious of whatever is well regarded and so indifferent to success...