Word: staring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building is a concrete complex overgrown with weeds and drying laundry. Neighbors stare from above, their arms draped over balconies. Through the door and inside Juan Carlos' apartment suddenly there is Judith, easily 7 ft. tall. Eight? She's huge. She leans down to offer her cheek for kisses. The walls are crowded with images of Michael Jordan. We say we're from Chicago. They nod politely. Juan Carlos thinks the Suns will take it this year. The Suns? We nod politely...
...that kids are drinking more heavily now, saying more prayers, seeing more counselors--550 visits so far this year. Two dozen students are homebound, unable, whether physically or emotionally, to come back to class yet. Tour-bus groups have changed their routes to stop at the high school, and stare...
...cannot leave the exhibit without considering the monumental wall of Spanish Dancer paintings. What is significant in this series is the relationship of the subject to the background. She handles color in the grounds with the expertise of a mature artist- one could stare all day at her miraculous combinations of streaks of yellows, greens, warm browns and cool blue-grays. Rothenberg knows how to paint a truly beautiful ground, but still more remarkable is the way she deals with the relationship of the figure to that ground. In these paintings, the dancer is certainly the figure, yet her body...
...goes off if you get too near (once, at an exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz sculptures, the frustration of this got the better of me and I had to plead for mercy with the guards.) Some art awakens entirely different desires, compelling the viewer instead to talk about it, to stare at it, to look away from it, to imitate it or to think about it. The work by Museum School and Harvard students now showing in the Adams House Art Space goes straight to the fingertips...
Walter C. Willett, Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition has long called attention to the risk from this harmful ingredient...