Word: stare
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...after the big, rain-drenched Whitsuntide rally ended with torchlights and fireworks, several thousand Communist kids invaded Western Berlin. But it was not the kind of invasion that the Communists had originally planned. The kids from Eastern Germany swarmed into the free part of Berlin to stare longingly at the well-filled shopwindows, at the candy counters and the shelves of white bread. Few of the youngsters had money to buy these rare treasures, but West Berliners took them into shops and bought them food, and even clothing and shoes...
Just as on the stage, Devlin's voice on this record persuades you Lear was "every inch a king." He blazes through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...
...excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...
...lips must pop as I say 'mon,' " explains Paula, who tries to duplicate not only the stars' inflections but their voices as well. "Sometimes I have to watch Bergman make her speech three, four or even five times before I am ready. I stare and stare and watch her mouth until I feel that I've practically crawled down her throat...
...came up, half a dozen sailors watched glumly from the Pozharsky's deck. Two of them planted themselves in warning at the head of the gangplank. Most of the women stopped singing, but Palmira, undiscouraged, waved her carnations and shouted, "Tovarish, Tovarish, Tovarish Stalin." The Russians continued to stare blankly and, for a moment, her voice began to break. Then she beamed and raised her arm in the clenched fist salute. At last the Russians answered. They raised their right arms-with hands held open. "No, no," howled Palmira's followers...