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...speak. The man's umbrella, however, is not shy at all. It rises and moves toward the girl's umbrella, which responds, and floats up into the air as well. The man and woman move to opposite sides of the stage and stare pensively into the wings...
Every enterprise in Russia is watched and judged by the party. Its presence radiates from Moscow to the remotest district in the land, no longer holding its subjects with terror but with the stern and pious stare of orthodoxy...
...what does he do? He rushes to the law books and tries to find a similar case; he looks for a set of facts of a similar nature to the present issue. He then tries to persuade a modern court that it too should rely on the doctrine of stare decisis [stand by past decisions] in settling a modern, complex problem, because a judicial precedent, which may have been established a decade or a century before, has been settled in a particular way. Why should anyone attempt to guide a society by looking backwards through a rearview mirror...
...happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted by her lover's new woman, and she pushes the interloper into an icy lake and jumps in after her. The convicts pause to stare, then trudge aboard a ferry to glide away...
PIERRE ALECHINSKY-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Twenty-one turbulent oils and tortured ink-wash paintings by the most sharp-fanged member of the Cobra group. Haunted little faces stare from the inky spume, half-formed bird-creatures hide in the thickets of the oils. Through...