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...trying to enter a building, please don't block the entrance while you gaze at the wonder of Harvard's architecture. When I'm trying to get to the Union to eat, there is no need for you to block the gate in front of Lamont while you stare at the metallic blob...
...told, chooses an aisle seat for his flying needs. It makes it easier to get to the bathroom, they say, and affords you a better chance of beating the crowd when you reach your final destination. To hell with efficiency; I always choose the window seat. And then I stare out. At the runway whizzing by, then at the crazily tilted world below as we climb, nose first, into the air. On clear days, I try to catch a glimpse of cities below. (Flying up the East Coast, you can make out all of Manhattan--the shape of the island...
...what does she feel? The viewer must translate the glances and cramped gestures of Ada's own aboriginal language. Sometimes her sideways stare says, "Men! Jeez!" and suggests the wry comedy The Piano could have been if it had not aimed higher. But mostly we see two eyeholes burning through the mask of civility to reveal raging helplessness -- until Ada finds hope in passion. Then she must face the prospects of Flora's betrayal, Stewart's rage, the loss of the piano, the sacrifice of limb and life...
...hour days at the ATF offices in L.A.'s World Trade Center. Founded in 1986, the program has dispatched staff members around the country to conduct Silence of the Lambs-style interviews with jailed arsonists in the hope of understanding motives and patterns. The profilers reread the Fedbuster letter, stare at maps and grease boards on the wall, monitor the news and try to brainstorm: if one person were responsible for more than one California fire, what kind of person would...
While the network joins people and ideas from all over the world, the individual using its resources is completely alone. In the basement of the Science Center, blank faces stare for hours into the computer screens. Occasionally, a humorous message forces a chuckle from one of the terminals, an oasis of human emotion amid a desert of android typists...