Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first phrase he learned to read was "The End." When he puts on his raincoat, he becomes a secret agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours a week before the magic box. By the time he is twelve, he will devote 25 hours to weekly viewing, or more time...
...audience at the Loeb last Friday and Saturday got its money's worth. The group is interesting to watch with something sympathetic and appealing about them; they are young, they move well, they perform with confidence and spirit. A few of them, Lisa Nelson and Whittaker Sheppard in particular, give off sparks of a very personalized energy. A few of them, especially wide-eyed Wendy Perron, possess radiant good looks that are nothing if not pleasant to behold. A few of them, like Martha Armstrong, are very funny. Attributes like these can make even a spoiled Loeb audience forget they...
...bearded intellectuals, and art dealers from all over Europe. In the crush, nearly everyone failed to recognize the artist, Günter Haese, 43, a slender, shy man with an assembly-line haircut and an inexpensive suit. No one, however, could ignore the 27 works on display. Built of watch springs, mesh, tiny cogs and spirals, the small, precisely balanced wire constructions fluttered and danced at the slightest breath. Bearing cryptic names, such as Hermit, Flirt and L'état c'est moi, they represented virtually all of Haese's sculptural output...
...more surprising because he so sedulously refuses to court it. The son of a Kiel mechanical engineer, he moved to Düsseldorf to study at its prestigious art school. While there, he immersed himself in Zen Buddhism, discovered his modus operandi during a meditation in 1960 when his watch shattered into pieces. Today he, his wife, his nine-year-old son and their uncaged parakeet live in a Düsseldorf public housing project. Haese insists on keeping the apartment so clean that the entire family removes its shoes before entering. Despite many tempting offers, Haese sells only enough...
Hunt is an emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...