Word: stare
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...vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety, they are suddenly obscured by a billowing drop decorated with atomic symbols. At ballet's end the music breaks off with chill abruptness, leaving the original four dancers staring blankly...
...hotel-warmers attended a bullfight, at which the stocky Prince gamely assisted a matador and took a royal pratfall as the bull charged. No press cameras were permitted, but Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while...
...into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front of the temple a shelving piece of ground resembling the shore of the Nile, now left far below. When all is done, the great figures of Ramses II will stare out over the Aswan lake, as they stared out over the Nile before its waters rose...
...that she had been treated heartlessly, hide flickering lust with censoriousness when the prosecution relentlessly details her love affairs. Hopelessly, she lashes at the judges: they are old men in silly robes, they cannot understand, they are dead. That night she commits suicide, and the next morning the judges stare at one another in a final communion of opacity...
...pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared. "Never heard of it," he said finally. "Never heard...