Word: stares
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...Fink, recall a Discovery Channel special on an African jewelry maker who suffered from an uncontrollable “death stare” that worked only against his will and was the cause of some of his closest friends’ deaths. Scare Fink with my own personal death stare...
...Play our set to a large and enthusiastic crowd (later tallied at 172 people). Spot Rolling Stone contributing editor Touré in the audience. Using the death stare, get him to bop his head. Conduct call-and-response with audience, where we say “This is all,” and they say, “Total bullshit.” Generate an air of liberating stupidity. A moment of noticeable group anxiety going into our lewdest song, “[Bitch, don’t trip, I just wanna] Dip the Tip,” given...
Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, the 12-year-old heroine of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend, is a bookish girl in small-town Mississippi in the early '70s. So was Tartt. Harriet has dark bobbed hair and an intense stare that unnerves other children and even grownups. Look at Tartt's photo, and compare for yourself. And--not unlike an author gestating a Gothic suspense novel--Harriet is patiently hatching a terrible and ominous plan...
...second-guess my intentions. I’ll return to Vietnam and speak with those children, with the market-goers who knew my family before they were mine, and wade through fields of grass toward Ông Ngoai’s grave. I’ll stare at his picture through scented smoke. He’ll look back with his triangular face. I’ll see my mother, and the three of us will finally speak the same language...
...know what Wendy’s themes are? Biggie. Great Biggie. I’m not paying for wit, I’m paying for beef. Plus, I’m just not into all the frills of Bartley’s decor. If I wanted to stare at licence plates while I ate, I’d go to the drive-thru...