Word: stares
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...just one small man in a large crowd of half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future...
While couples cuddled up along the seawall for a romantic firework show, the plebes were lined up in dozens of columns along the roped-off field. They sat Indian-style, hands on knees, and stared straight ahead in “military gaze”—a blank stare reminiscent of a lobotomy patient...
...friends, and assume our positions. Grainne and Angela settle on the concrete blocks just outside the pit and I stand on the ground in front of them. I struggle to replicate the expressionless gaze I so admire in the Square’s bride and angel living statues. I stare straight ahead and try not to smile, not to make eye contact with the countless cruel passersby who ignore us or—even worse—approach us and then reconsider. One woman gives us the thumbs up; another comments to a friend that the performance art was better...
...trying to stare people down, moving my eyes behind the mask while keeping everything else still,” she says. “I made them really uncomfortable...
...enormous outdoor room. The underside of the bridge has by far the best surface treatment: a system of cast concrete panels forming a landscape of architecturally random pyramids. These panels are intriguing and beautiful, and one can imagine people bumping into each other as they look up and stare at the pattern above them rather than pay attention to where they’re going. From the river, the outline of the bridge and low-rise dramatically frames a trapezoidal-shaped piece...