Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Squint hard enough and there's Bobby Orr, frozen horizontally in time after his overtime goal beat the Blues for the Stanley...
...lawyers and court offices huddle together at the front of the room, turning the crank on the cases The judge is clearly in charge, but if you squint it's hard to see any differences in status between the bailiffs, the clerks, the lawyers and the judge. All of them are of the system. confident in her grey-faced roles...
...splendid conspiracy, two new films insist on being stared at. They can get away with this affront to dullness because they are for kids, whose eyes have not yet been educated to squint, and because they have the cartoonish spirit. Beauty and the Beast, a fairy tale, is Disney's 30th animated feature; The Addams Family, a comic ghost story, is a flip book based on Charles Addams' drawings. Both films are defiantly artificial, with fancy musical numbers and design schemes that carry not only the mood but most of the humor. And both movies have talking furniture...
...eerie scene at the beginning of the Book of Job, that splendid treatise on the mysteries of evil, has God and Satan talking to each other like sardonic gentlemen gamblers who have met by chance at the racetrack at Saratoga. God seems to squint warily at Satan, and asks, in effect, So, Satan, what have you been doing with yourself? And Satan with a knowing swagger replies, in effect, I've been around the world, here and there, checking it out. Then God and Satan make a chillingly cynical bet on just how much pain Job can endure before...
...HORSE VETERINARIAN, Doctor E. Scott MacAllister, lets me ride with him for a day, to watch him work and take some pictures as he makes his rounds to local farms (local meaning within fifty miles of his home.) Though cloudy, it is so bright I must squint to keep my eyes from smarting. He tells me last year he put 45,000 miles on his Astro-Van. We sit in the two front seats with the rest of the van filled with pills, salves, buckets and the other tools of his trade. We stop at eight or nine farms that...