Word: stares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsored by one of the Black organizations on campus. My friend asked if he would be the only white person there. My friend is not prejudiced against minorites, he just thought he would feel uncomfortable if he was different from everybody else. He didn't want the others to stare at him or make him feel like he didn't belong. He didn't even realize that this is the exact same problem that minorities have to deal with every day, especially in this predominantly white atmosphere...
...board is green and white floor tile, inlaid into the table. Green and white are what they use in championship play, Roach has explained. "You stare at a red and white board for four hours, and you'll go blind. I don't know why they still sell red and white boards in dime stores." His checkers are red and butterscotch, instead of red and black, because "black is nauseating...
...hammer and saw early in the morning and continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around on a set. I sit and stare at the walls or walk around and bump into my trailer...
...about Ginsberg's insane mother, who died in 1956, is a masterpiece of candor and emotional persuasion: "The Charity of her hands stinking with Manhattan, madness, desire to please me, cold undercooked fish--pale red near the bones. Her smells--and oft naked in the room, so that I stare ahead, or turn a book ignoring...
...that First Ladies know Presidents better, and sometimes influence them more than anyone else. As pressures build and critics carp, the President and his wife tend to grow closer. The intriguing thing is that their personal chemistry is virtually unknown to outsiders. A First Lady's warm embrace, cold stare or worried brow can affect her husband's mind and mood, and maybe even shake nations...