Word: stare
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...STATION ZEBRA doesn't afford much cause for complaint: its faults are all small and obvious, as are its virtues, and if you're in love with your date and can happily stare at him or her during the slow stretches, a relatively pleasant evening can be had for the price of a pair of tickets...
Without warning and without fear, you and Richard Brautigan come sliding along in a cute old plane without wings or buttons or anything. You stare down and cannot speak. He smiles and you can't remember how you got here and don't care. You move along, laughing to yourself every so often, even WOWing at some Good Ones. It's all very simple. "The Fullness of Living." "Oatmeal sticks to your ribs." Then there's a scene with a guy who can't quite Make It with a girl and it looks like a nice place...
...French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F. Leader Nguyen Huu Tho and a young Viet Cong hero executed by the South Vietnamese stare down at a television set, several easy chairs, a chest topped by the N.L.F. standard and a conference table covered with green cloth, surrounded by eight straight-backed chairs. Through the bay windows of the salon, Madame Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant...
...Municipal Court, Room 404, for it is Adlow's court. It is run by him this way; he is sure this is the way it must be run. His eyes are old and they know very much; they know more than mine, have mine thoroughly whipped (I tried to stare at him for a time but could not). My eyes are frightened, flit around the room, unable to gather it all in and not wanting to, wanting to get out of this jail cell...
...other countries, heckling is a sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...