Word: stares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven have less than a full sentence: The deal is worse than it first appears. There is a brighter side to all of this. Each page of pictures is one less printed page to read. And though Dino Kalupolis's pictures are bad, there is no need to stare at them for any length of time...
Bangladesh, Botswana and Qatar. There was another country, too, called Biafra. Like those radioactive elements produced in a laboratory, it was destined for a brief, intense half-life before it vanished forever. But the eyes of its starving children still stare from old magazines-and in the memory...
Even so, it is not easy for Americans to stare at revolutionary violence with equanimity, even if the state of affairs in America seems to rule it out, at home, for the foreseeable future. Espousing revolutionary violence requires a measure of dedication to ultimate progressive goals possessed by few people in our country. Humanely calculating the relationship between means and ends demands a sensitivity and an honesty that can only be forged in the heat of struggle. Most Americans are still too detached both from their history and from their needs for the future to make the terrible judgments imposed...
...Edward Lindquist, 32, who has delivered such notices himself. "They guess it when they see the car and see you standing at the door. There isn't any good way to do it. No easy way. You get a cross section of reactions. Sometimes there is a blank stare. You're not sure if they've heard you. Sometimes there are tears. Sometimes there are tears before you say a word...
Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...