Word: staringer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, he may not need the job, but he has become somewhat attached to it. He is probing the limitations of his power, and as he establishes boundaries, he becomes more comfortable in what he does. He has slowly broken his worst diplomatic habit of staring at the floor when...
An interest in anthropological description ran parallel with this taste for the sublime. In 1824 George Catlin saw some Indians in Philadelphia and determined that "nothing short of the loss of my life [a possibility] shall prevent me from visiting their country and be coming their historian." With immense energy...
The Last Laugh. A 1924 silent film classic from Germany, staring Emil Jannings as the proud doorman of a luxury hotel, demoted to washroom attendent, until fate gives him the last laugh. 8:30, May 26. Chan. 2.
Rooftop Rifles. Frank Gracia, head of a drug-rehabilitation program in the Southeast Bronx, became aware of the gangs six months ago. He told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We had this street fair, selling sausages for a dime, sodas for a nickel. Well, these kids got in an argument with...
"The maleness of Yale was overwhelming," they recall in their book Women at Yale. "Male eating clubs, male-populated streets, even a male-oriented health department. Walking down a Yale street we became acutely aware of the staring. We were conscious of ourselves as objects, common objects to be looked...