It inspired the phrase “thousand yard stare,” which references a blank stare that usually results from a form of traumatization. The Thomas Lea painting was first featured in LIFE Magazine in ...

They had worked together before, on the Sundance series “The Red Road,” but McClarnon’s decades of experience and thousand-yard stare had lost none of their potency. “Is this guy gonna ...

It was May 15, 1967. "I looked up and saw a Marine with what they call the thousand-yard stare," Johnston recalls, "and I lifted my Leica and snapped his picture. The soldier’s gaze never left ...