Word: stares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Davis, 36, seemed inexorably drawn to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington. A D.C. police officer for more than 15 years, Davis is said to have once called the memorial "the ugliest thing I ever saw." Yet he would often visit it after finishing his duty, to stare at the 148 black granite slabs inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans killed or missing in the Viet Nam War. A decorated veteran, Davis had served in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division when he was only 17 years old. On a bright cool morning last...
...twinkly and crinkly, spouting sentimental songs and blarney-encrusted stories, the face of a certain kind of jolly theatrical performer used to be referred to as "the map of Ireland." For a revised and updated emotional cartography, audiences are advised to stare long and hard into the physiognomy of John Lynch. A young actor of Roman Catholic stock who grew up in Ulster, he plays the title role in Cal, a brooding, subtle film that dares to make the only valid response to the endless violence of life in Northern Ireland today: a sort of strangled horror...
...traditional selling places. They have a friendlier, more welcoming look than the Sears stores of old, with more aisles, lower ceilings and merchandise displayed with flair and style at eye level. Fashion labels with big names-Arnold Palmer, Joe Namath, Diane von Furstenberg, Johnny Carson and Evonne Goolagong-stare back at the customer. To make self-service shopping easier, products will have clearer, more informative labeling. A new cash-register system decreases the average check-out time from three minutes to 90 seconds...
...some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they just want to put it down and stare at the wall for as long as possible...
...supposed to spill from writers' minds like shrimp, especially on momentous occasions like graduations, weddings, funerals; we do it all. Instead, I reach in my desk for some verbal pocket watch to wrap up for you in tissue paper, and come up blank. Too dazed or polite, you stare at my face the way Telemachus must have stared on the beach at Ithaca, searching for Ulysses among the sailors...