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gape the width of the widely opened mouth of a vertebrate gape [gāp] (anatomy) The margin to margin distance between open jaws. (invertebrate zoology) The space between the margins of a closed mollusk valve. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Here is a history which, to paraphrase Blair Worden, invites us "not to think, not to exercise our imaginations, but to gawp. Where most of Minelli's heads gawp, taking in the viewer as only the inanimate can, hunchback discombobulates looking: Consider how Hugo's monster stood for looking past surface toward the unseen interior. Paradoxically, huge numbers of wealthy folk whizz round the world from the industrialized nations to gawp at inhabitants of subsistence economies in Indonesia and India. |
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