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THEORY NO. 2 Outside distractions. It's not just cable. With DVDs, video games and the Internet, your average guy has a lot more to do these days than stare at a sitcom. While there's no proof yet that these activities are eating into TV time, it makes sense: 18-to-24-year-olds, who Nielsen says are driving the decline, are among the most voracious consumers of these media...
...they’re friends,” says Yan of the band’s stage props. “I really am fond of the owl, and if I’m struggling, I’ll go over and just try and stare it in the eyes. It makes me feel like I’m in a David Lynch film...
There are two great scenes in Tom Jones—a droll prologue styled after a silent film and an equally soundless dinner scene in which the titular Jones (Albert Finney) and his latest squeeze stare at each other as they devour oysters and chicken with lascivious panache. When the film turns to its sprawling episodic plot (taken from the Henry Fielding novel), things grow slow and confusing. Finney proves an immensely charismatic hero, though, and he makes even the tedious spells entertaining. Wednesday at 4:30 and 9:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
Years ago, he recalls, the viewers would stare down each ballot box as it arrived, their necks craning over a metal railing separating the counting staff from its audience...
...pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction. Then she dares you to stare at something--a little boy with a toy hand grenade, a dominatrix embracing her client--until you admit your own complicity with whatever it is in there that frightens you. At that point, all the picture's traps unfold, and it confers its rough grace. Like...