Word: stares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rubber gloves and gooey cream may bring fellow dyers closer together, viewing a pink head of hair does not inspire quite the same enthusiasm in the average brown-haired Joe. Out of the corner of their eyes, our dyers often catch sight of open-mouthed gapes and wide-eyed stares. "No stranger ever says anything," Brown says. "They just stare." Workman adds that "little kids can't keep their eyes off my hair." Of course, these enraptured spectators can hardly be blamed for their violation of Ms. Vanderbilt's no-staring rule. The novelty of blue hair is justification enough...
...anti-heroine. After her children are quarantined, she flees London, only to be chased back because other towns fear the possibility of infection from a Londoner. When she returns to the empty frame of a house that once contained her family, her response is emotionless. Her frequently vacant stare makes Chandler strangely cold, an awkward position for a central female character...
...album handed out to visitors in Prime Minister Mokdad Sifi's office is gruesome testimony of civil war: 32 pages of glossy color snapshots from Algeria's morgues. Severed heads appear on most pages, eyes open, frozen in a terrified stare. Pools of blood fill the stumps of necks on headless torsos. The bodies of children caught in a bombing have been charred to cinders. The only discernible feature on a decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas...
...youngest and strongest. One woman, an intellectual, steadfastly applies her make-up as a way of denying control to the war. "I will not be a victim," she says in a private moment. A Serbian soldier calmly describes murdering and raping civilians. His voice never falters and his eyes stare dully while a cigarette burns carelessly in his hand...
...late night Delta flight from Chicago O'Hare in the summer of 1993, the junior pilot begins his normal interruptions about the names of the towns while passengers stare out of the window at the patches of light below, pretending they can see more than a tiny speck...