Word: staring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smoke Signals. These old familiar faces go into action when the eager, idealistic daughter of Tracy and Hepburn turns up unexpectedly at their mansion with a fiance who is just as black as she is blonde. Everyone is poleaxed by the news: Hepburn puts on that blank stare one remembers from Bringing Up Baby. Tracy's seamed old face knits together, and his chin goes up like that of an Indian chief reading threatening smoke signals. The Negro maid upbraids Poitier as a "smooth-talking, smart-ass nigger" taking advantage of her little girl. Only the family friend, lovable...
...year's picture books, Artist Wildsmith offers a series of 14 wonderful paintings of owls, pheasants, herons and other feathered creatures. There is no text, but youngsters and their parents are sure to be intrigued by his picture captions: a "congregation of plover," a "wedge of swans," a "stare of owls...
...best poems are about women, lonely middle-aged women facing their own decay. "The Face" describes without a touch of comforting illusion, a long hard stare into the mirror...
...started it all, you know," she says nervously, not breaking her stare. "Rock 'n Roll, I mean." She flicks an ash onto the floor...
...Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. They overflowed beyond the big shade trees and sat on the banks on the Constitution Avenue side. David Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was standing in front of a rostrum across the street from the scolding stare of Abraham Lincoln. Dellinger was saying, "Our-voices will be heard and our bodies will be heeded...