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Actually, clear-sighted, 20/20 types with nasty minds can soon learn to spot the contact wearers in any crowd: they are the ones who either stare unwaveringly at the person speaking, lest a sudden swiveled gaze leave vision behind, or hold their heads very high, blinking faster than the speed of light, the better to keep out motes and intruding lashes. Since contacts are cheaper and take less time to grind on the Continent than in England, many Britons have them made to order while vacationing there-and thus are subject to customs duties on the lenses when they come...
...Robert Frost spent a large part of his last two decades receiving the accolades of national affection. But there is a perverse quality of dismissal about a nation's affection, as if the recipient were being asked while still alive to mount a bronze horse, assume a statuary stare, and to refrain from doing anything that would require the recutting of the inscription on his pedestal...
Unknowns. Students hone their craft by conducting Scherchen, who sings the music in a croaking voice and veers off course at the slightest lapse in direction. But mostly they conduct in total silence under the concentrated stare of Scherchen's glinting blue eyes. "Isn't there a crescendo there?" he will interrupt. Says James Harrison, 29, of St. Louis, who is currently the only Scherchen student in residence: "The maestro has no place for mediocrity, and therefore he outlaws orchestras. One has to listen to music within one's mind, using the powerful force of imagination...
Cohesive Movement. Now 33, Nichols is the sort of director whom most writers and actors only meet when they are asleep and dreaming. Actors agree he is their ideal one-man audience. He sits in rehearsals and howls and chuckles until the actors get delusions and stare across the footlights at 1,500 Mike Nicholses. He lets them invent and improvise on their own. When in doubt he says, "I don't believe...
...incident and anecdote to separate the significant from the pointless; it is not a book that is terribly useful now. And Sidey's last chapter is far below the level of the earlier ones; the book closes: "He used to gaze beyond the waves from his boat and would stare from a plane window towards infinity. Now he is there...