Word: stares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must result from much work, yet his points get lost in an amateur hodge-podge of avant-garde theatricality. He sacrifices crucial substance for a vapid style, believing his messages can still come across. The last scene seemed comical to much of the audience, but watching Sellars stare intently and emotionally at the stage, one quickly realized this was no farce to laugh at but serious stuff. Only...
...poisoning as a result of eating incorrectly prepared puffer fish, the great delicacy fugu. Davis found that entire Japanese case histories "read like accounts of zombification." Indeed, nearly every symptom reported by Narcisse and his doctors is described, from the initial difficulty breathing to the final paralysis, glassy-eyed stare and yet the retention of mental faculties. In at least two cases, Japanese victims were declared dead but recovered before they could be buried. Japanese reports confirmed what Davis was told by the bocors: the effect of the poison depends on the dosage; too much will kill "too completely...
...high-flying literary careers. A case in point: Jason meets Leo, a reporter who has been spending his time "just hanging around." "I hear you're an expert on Russia," Jason says. "Dah. I speak the lingo," comes the reply. A little later, Leo--after weeks of puppy-eyed stares at Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story about her simply in order to see her. She stares at him--"Why!" -another blank "Because I want to marry you." Silence, more stares. "It'll take me a little while to absorb that." A long, lugubrious stare: "Absorbed...
Mondale's weakness plays directly into Glenn's strength: an appeal that cuts across class and interest-group lines, based on his days as an astronaut, which will be celebrated again in the upcoming movie of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Crowds pack around to stare at the first American to orbit the earth, fondly remembering a time when the nation seemed more united and the future more full of hope. One telling incident: when New York Governor Mario Cuomo played host to a Democratic forum at which Glenn spoke, Cuomo's secretary begged...
...other extreme are societies without life. The vital signs are missing. When they are confronted with the need for contrition, they can manage only a growl and a blank stare. Such is the case in the petrified remains of the burned-out revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that...