Word: staring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach Billy Clearly danced from the Crimson bench to join the mob near the Harvard goal, the Wildcats could just stare and wonder what it takes to win a game in this March-mad tournament. UNH has now lost seven of eight ECAC quarterfinal contests...
...happy it did; the occupancy rate has been an astounding 90%. Not surprisingly, Hyatt asked Portman to repeat his formula in a hotel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and it worked again. Sophisticated Chicagoans make the 45-min. trip from downtown to have a cocktail and stare. In 1971, however, Portman broke with Hyatt after a quarrel and joined forces with the Western International chain, a subsidiary of U.A.L. Inc. It now runs the new Portman hotel in Atlanta...
...experience he craves, but what he finds disgusts him. A passenger (played by Scorsese) describes to Travis the .44 magnum holes he will make in his adulterous wife's body, and through it all Travis is expected to stare straight ahead. The camera cuts between the back of his neck, to which the passenger speaks, and Travis's face, which reflects a mixture of horror and fascination. Prostitutes fellate businessmen in his cab--Travis's role is to remain oblivious, and, at the end of the night, to clean the semen stains off the back seat...
...Manhattan by Promoter Philip Fox, these startling shirts will go on sale in March and could soon make the double take an institution on city streets. One, emblazoned with realistic-looking and oddly placed eyes, will put any woman one-up on male bosom watchers: her chest will stare back at them. Another has a pair of shapely legs draped over the shoulders, as if someone were riding piggyback. A third, though neck high, seems to be a scuba suit unzipped to the navel, partially revealing breasts dyed on in authentic flesh tones. Later in the year. Body Language will...
Maybe that's what touches off Tharp's style--the way we stare not seeing, taking in all with equal unconcern, entangled in minute tasks, frantic that there seems nothing more. Like Tharp's dance, high-speed fumbling...