Word: stares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canal Zone and Meat. Their monologues, just serious enough to be plausible -- Brustein actually does believe that directors have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying to catch up. Later sequences offer conventional, tell-me-a-story pleasures: a mother with a toothache tries to dispel it through elaborate religious ritual; a drunken father comes home and dies in a poignant scene made all the more impressive by the fact that moments...
...back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes out of shopping carts, speak the language of the mad, and stare at their own loneliness with disbelief...
...exhibit of 125 photographs at Manhattan's International Center of Photography. The show brings back the prewar pictures that provided the world with its first evidence of his acute and mostly cheerful eye: an imperturbable waiter on ice skates, Marlene Dietrich in a top hat, but also the vulpine stare of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. It proceeds into the years when Eisenstaedt became a legend on the staff of LIFE, where he served from the first issue, contributing thousands of pictures and 92 covers...
...true romantic attachment: to the other boys in the pressroom. Seducing Hildy back is his editor Walter Burns (John Lithgow), a consummate user who plays to the reporter's vanity and yearning for power. The 6-ft. 4-in. Lithgow resembles a giant python, fixing victims with his stare, crushing them in his embrace. Johnson repeatedly flares into compassion. But he yields to Burns' blandishments every time, and something goes dead in his eyes. He looks like a recovered alcoholic taking the deadly first drink...
...Casual Pass Conversation. Participants are moving in opposite directions and are looking at the sidewalk with occasional upward glances for safety purposes. They inadvertantly recognize each other at a block apart, but the awkwardness of trying to express acknowledgment from this distance is too great. Both participants instantly stare back at the sidewalk in unconscious humiliation, feigning ignorance of the other's presence until the distance is closed to approximately 10 feet. At ten feet they can pretend to have just happened to look...