Word: staring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Murdoch sets her novel in the form of a parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...
...showing how deucedly comic he is, and no doubt that's the way Roman comedy really was played; I, however, was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and Kendra Stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an unpleasant situation...
...special Eldorado achieves the ultimate in conspicuous consumption of space by putting buckets in the back, thereby sacrificing an extra passenger for the bucket's thronelike comfort. Racing-style stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they are really only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...Visas. The Reds got their first inkling of trouble from Foreign Minister Lima. Fixing the delegation with an icy stare, Lima informed it that "the congress is inopportune" and that there would be no official courtesies forthcoming. Then Moscow reported that Russia's entire delegation-Authoress Vasilevskaya included -had been refused visas without explanation by the Brazilian embassy...
Fredrick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the Medical School and Secretary of the Massachusetts Committee for Dental Health, stated Wednesday that the opponents of fluoridation in Brookline have waged a campaign of "vituperation and distortion." His statement was reiterated and augmented yesterday by Mrs. Justyn Wyner of the Brookline committee supporting fluoridation...