look - perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
Living in a hovel by the seashore, visited only by the occasional gawper who is aware that he once worked for a notorious tyrant, the Porter relays a maddened, hallucinogenic, brutal, erotic and comic account of his ex-master's doomed duel with destiny.
Watching from the footpath beside the river as white spotlights played through the wafting cloud, it was like being transported to a spectacular fantasy world - until I bumped into a fellow gawper in the dark.
(That's you, Ricky Martin.) Gawpers and grovellers allowed to be unpaid TV extras in the grounds of Windsor Castle might have a legal claim to the PS7.83 an hour legal minimum wage when it was apparent the passing toffs didn't give a vol-au-vent for them.
Here everyone pretty much knows what they are doing, where they are heading, and how to use an airport -- you don't get the gawpers, you know the guys who don't take off their belts as they walk through security or stand in the walking lane on the moving walkway.
The tight curves, the proximity to gawpers happy to pay top dollar for the best vantage point, the temptation to go for it when patience is the wiser strategy...
The only thing that slows down the traffic are the highway gawpers looking across the dual carriageway at yet another accident, and all those in the accident tailback.
They're going to lay down tracks and have helpers push gullible gawpers along, amid the debris and detritus that inevitably accumulates in such forgotten places.