Word: stare
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...there are times when even The Clan cannot keep Shirley going, when she withdraws into a corner to stare at the wall or struggle with sudden tears, The Clan accepts this, too. Her sudden shifts of mood and attention are as striking offscreen as on. The core of her life, she insists, is her family, her Japan-based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep...
Last week in the Faculty Club, two doctors fom the School of Public Health assaulted the athlete claim to a need for unique diets. Doctors Jean Mayer and Frederick J. Stare, speaking before an audience of track and swimming team members and coaches, soundly attacked the concept of a training table...
...with the terrifying instinctual coordination and single-mindlessness of a colossal millipede gone mad. Karl Maiden makes a memorably silly-sinister billy goat. Actress Schell, holding a hard rein on her sentimental excesses, gives a gracious, intelligent performance. And though Actor Cooper, when required to produce the piercingly analytic stare, can do no more than push out his chin and look as though he is about to whinny, he demonstrates in a hundred subtle little platitudes of the prairie that he sure does know his oats...
With the frazzled stare of a gal who wants to wash that fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...
...before the eyes of the world the vast figure of Russia bursting into flames like a light of redemption for all the sorrows and misfortunes of mankind." But Zhivago soon sickens of "the savagery of daily, hourly, legalized, rewarded slaughter." Moscow is like a looted city, its empty windowpanes stare blindly at Zhivago; it is another one of the living whom the Revolution has buried. Typhus and near-starvation force the doctor to pack himself and family off to the Urals-but the old life is still so near that they go into exile with a nursemaid for the children...