"I am ashamed now to say it but I passed my eyes over her as a cannibal views his dinner, my gaze sharp enough to pick the meat off her bones," she wrote, adding: "For a moment she had turned back from a figurehead into the young woman she was, before monarchy froze her and made her a thing, a thing which only had meaning when it was exposed, a thing that existed only to be looked at.
Dressed up and itching between my parents on those rush-hour D trains to Grandma's shabbes dinner, I gazed into Miss Subways' calm, confident eyes.
The "Quest for the West" trip begins in Jackson Hole, and the first full day includes an early morning wildlife walk, rafting, horseback riding and, after dinner, star gazing.
At family dinners we gaze down at our cell phones, and increasingly we refuse to watch black and white movies, or movies with subtitles, because we want something easy, with not too much to pay attention to or think about.
He sat across from me at dinner and his gaze was so direct that for the whole two minutes that we discussed creative writing programs in Great Britain, his home country, I felt as if I was the only woman in the world.
Syrbar at via Libertini 67 (08329 083247171 65, www.syrbar.it) is the right place for after-dinner cocktails to gaze at the beautifully lit Piazza del Duomo completely surrounded by grand buildings and the city's cathedral.
The young girl is my 4-year-old self who once felt comfortable with an uncle, but turns 17 years old and avoids his gaze at dinner.
The Fletcher family, who graciously invited me for Thanksgiving dinner in Long Island, gathered to gaze at a computer screen.
All you have to do is round the corner into the permanent installation of Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" (1974-79), the Sackler Center's foundational work, and gaze down at porcelain dinner plates featuring abstract forms resembling vulvas and vaginas.
How many times have you been to dinner with someone who instinctively gazes at his BlackBerry every few minutes?
