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Word: stares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the network joins people and ideas from all over the world, the individual using its resources is completely alone. In the basement of the Science Center, blank faces stare for hours into the computer screens. Occasionally, a humorous message forces a chuckle from one of the terminals, an oasis of human emotion amid a desert of android typists...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Get Yourself Connected | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...damage done to him by his father, and his own personal battle to distinguish himself from Roy's actions. Meg Ryan as Kay Davies is the focus of the father-son struggle, and remains a simplistic character completely oblivious to what is happening around her. Her sparkling wide-eyed stare and innocent dialogue provide an effective counterweight to the heavy dynamic of the plot which revolves around...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Little House on the Prairie | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...Calypso Reef" featured dolphins and a sunset. Every few days, someone would come into our room, stare into the picture for a minute or two, and proclaim that they had seen dolphins and that they were sooo cool. I hated that...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: Now you don't see it, Now you don't see it | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...once again time to tune in and listen to Bob Cousy butcher the English language--but in a lovely, Bostonian way. It was time to watch Larry step back and drill the three. Or it was time to stare in amazement as McHale used and abused some over-priced, over-rated rookie in the low post...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: After the Thrill Is Gone | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...glaring with demonic and possessed eyes. In part I, Ivan seems to be in a trance in the scenes in the church or when he is making grand proclamations. In Part II, his eyes are a sight to behold: they no longer dart from side to side, but stare resolutely straight on, offering us evil personified. To quell the boyar conspiracy, Ivan creates his secret police force, the "Oprichnina." The parallels between this medieval Russian epoque and the Stalinist Terror are obvious. It's not clear whether Eisenstein intended it to be this way or whether we are looking back...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: Russian Pomp and Circumstances | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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