Word: stares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selling poet. One bit of doggerel elegized his pet golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare/ And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair,/ But he's not there./ Oh, how I wish that wasn't so,/ I'll always love a dog named Beau...
...kids arrive in kids' outfits of baggy jeans, high-tops, sweat shirts, bright blues, yellows, purples, greens. For most of them it is their first time in a synagogue. They stare with respectful interest at the formally dark-clad mourners enacting the sad familiar rituals of funerals--the brief embraces and the exchanges of helpless looks. A few of the students tremble and sob. One, verging on hysterics, has to be led away. The first of the eulogists, a college buddy of Jonathan's, praises him as "one who knew how to love and teach kids...
...face, which creases into a sickly smile. Opium is the curse of the House of Pang. Those who surrender to it will corrupt the children of the palace, Ruyi (Gong Li) and Zhong-liang (Cheung), creating a new generation of addicts. As grownups, these adult children will stare into the camera, their only confidant, to express their impotent rage; and their faces will be streaked with tears as chic as pearl drops...
...Quentin on a bum rap. Cage's body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling his effects, including a furry toy bunny he bought for the daughter he's never seen. "Put the bunny back in the box," he whispers with slow righteousness--and he flashes...
Richard C. Marius, senior lecturer on English, reminds us that "human beings are incomplete unless they can stare out windows, seeing a world beyond what the eye can behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then...