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...lecture—which are huge annoyances in themselves, though they do make actually attending classes (which aren't taped, unlike almost every other introductory science class) an incentive. But if you ask to delve into the material beyond the lectures, be prepared to be met by a wooden stare and an awkward silence...
...terms, most of this works. Cage is especially fine. He tamps down his familiar eccentricities, and lends McLoughlin a laser stare of dread as he lies in his metal cage he thinks has become his coffin. After he's rescued and brought out on a stretcher, McLoughlin's gesture of touching the hand of each helper and saying "Thank you" has a heart-touching simplicity and nobility...
It’s hard to be a wine aficionado in college. Whenever I stare into a plastic cup full of God-knows-what at a Harvard party, I always think of that scene from Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” where an intoxicated Oxford student vomits on another, and one of the drunkard’s friends explains to the vomitee: “The wines were too various….It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was mixture...
After nearly three weeks trapped in basements listening to the fighting raging over their heads, the survivors of the fierce battle in this hill town emerge into the sunlight and stare at the desolation around them. The heart of their usually thriving market town has been turned into rubble and bomb craters. "I don't want to talk. I just want to get out," says one woman as she stumbles across the carpet of shattered masonry that covers what is left of the high street...
...Jean, a bourgeois gent in early 20th century Paris, has just returned to his baronial home from a business trip. He is satisfied with his position in society and with himself: "Friends say I have the cold stare of achievement." (Jeez, what do his enemies say?) He has been married for 10 years to a woman "well bred and intelligent." She has won the approval of his circle. "Friends said I was very much in love, and I said so myself." (He enjoys hearing other people talk about him nearly as much as he enjoys talking about himself...