Word: stares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Factories that once resounded to the harsh tympany of steam hammers and hydroturbines now emit only a somnolent midmorning snore. As the gears of a spent nation grind to a halt, the determination and grit once blazing from the face of industrial workers have given way to the tired stare of apathy and depression...
...answered with a blank stare, you're not alone. Harvard doesn't keep statistics on the number of South Asians, as opposed to the number of East or Southeast Asians, enrolled in the College. South Asians are often simply referred to as "Indians" or lumped together with all other Asians...
...Philip Glass met Phil Spector . . . well, they'd probably just stare at each other. But it's conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio...
...work had been as restrained. Unfortunately, at rare but important intervals, the spirited acting was prone to becoming a little too feverish and overworked. Furthermore, the characters who had nothing to say in a given scene might have had something more meaningful to do than twiddle their thumbs and stare off into space...
...others notice that only the Black police officers take time to play basketball or talk with them at the youth center, while the white police "just ride by and stare at us like we're bad kids," says Kevin Dunkley...