Word: staring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairs on one side of the hall sat the civilian politicians of all persuasions. Facing them across a space of 20 feet sat the military men-who are, to a man, disturbed by the politicians' bickering. With a proper sense of dramatic timing. Sukarno let the two groups stare at each other in silence for 30 long and thoughtful minutes. Then the President strode in and talked for 90 minutes. His solution for Indonesia's governmental chaos was simple indeed. Said Sukarno: "I, President Sukarno, have appointed Citizen Sukarno-myself-to form an extraparliamentary Emergency Cabinet of experts...
...camera caught the stare of a bored little girl caught up in a group of gesticulating farmers, flickered over the strained, sweat-lined faces of steelworkers stoking their furnaces, and watched while a painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Excerpt: "So the farmers rose up. At the head of the fighters stood a farmer, George Washington. And the distinguished Thomas Jefferson was there too. The great Polish fighters, Kosciusko and Pulaski, also took part in the fight. In 1776 the uprisers were victorious. The Congress...
...Tuesday and Wednesday, JAZZ WORKSHOP and JAZZ ROUNDTABLE offer the more scholastic approach to jazz. JAZZ WORKSHOP features the relaxed commentary of Reilly Atkinson on recordings and musicians of unusual interest. Producer Fred Stare dominates the panel discussion on JAZZ ROUNDTABLE...
There remains the Lillie. In the circumstances, it is clearly no accident that she is at her best when she speaks not a word; for lamentable are many of the words she has to speak, or-worse yet-to trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid, that disdainful glide, as of a sneering sleepwalker, might very well be addressed to her material. Even when shackled by it, she manages at moments to shake herself magically free; the grande dame lurches, the veiled maiden loops, culture splinters into anarchy. There are scattered glories with Actress Lillie...
...girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...