Word: stare
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Crowther complains of having "to keep darting the eyes back and forth from the images to the subtitles." A moment's reflection should remind him that one does not stare fixedly at one spot on the screen in a non-subtitled film. The eye is constantly on the move, picking up touches all over the (often very wide) screen. So the glancing back and forth in subtitled films is hardly a unique physiological phenomenon...
Well-meaning friends are constantly introducing him to pretty young women. Fairchild usually takes them to dinner, sometimes gets so involved in a technical or musical discussion with friends that the girl is left to stare vacantly at the wall. His maiden aunt, May, in her 80s, lives with him. "I don't know why I haven't gotten married," he says. "Perhaps it's that I've been so busy. Let's hope it isn't too late. I'm not a bachelor by conviction. I think I am very unfortunate...
...Senate campaign Jack called out the clan. Bobby was a meticulous campaign manager, crisscrossing Massachusetts like an anxious welterweight, head down, looking up through bushy eyebrows with a baleful stare. State Senator John Powers asked Joe Kennedy for his wife's services as a campaigner. "But she's a grandmother," he protested. "Yes, but she's beautiful, and she's the mother of a Congressman, and we need her," was the reply. Rose went to work, with Eunice, Pat and Jean, at the famous Boston tea parties, and the Clan Kennedy smashed Cabot Lodge and turned...
...Eyes Have It. In Memphis, after a police officer described him as a drunken driver because of his "glassy stare,'' Defendant Robert Malone took the stand and removed his glass left...
Countess Potolska sits in the sun-dazed plazas of Mexico, but her eyes blindly stare at aristocratic Polish drawing rooms, the image of Pilsudski, and her 20-year-old son standing in the streets of Warsaw in grim defiance of Nazi soldiery. Hawk-eyed and hawk-beaked, the countess is a Polish Jewess and a refugee, one of the world's involuntary tourists whose heaviest luggage is memory...