Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers' cause. As air pollution, noise and other environmental issues acquired clout in the 1970s, Narita became the ritual target of militants with almost any quality-of-life complaint...
...postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such as the 1976 National Air and Space Museum by Gyo Obata. But perhaps one more structure was needed to break this bind, to show that a modern building could embody the ceremonial gravity of "official" architecture while refusing to compromise its own inventiveness. On June 1 that structure opens to the public. It is, of course...
...largest and possibly the last (since democracy has now been restored in Spain) of his 30-year series of Elegies for the Spanish Republic. Hovering over and animating the whole central space is a huge mobile by Alexander Calder, feathery light despite its size, and lazily responding to every air current. Smaller spaces are reserved for changing exhibitions, and in this the galleries at each of the levels succeed very well, as do the tower rooms reached by skylighted stairways...
...resistance and rebellion in III. The book is principally an enthralling account of the first postwar escapes and strikes in the camps that exploded into full-scale mutinies after Stalin's death. That heroic era coincided with Solzhenitsyn's own eight-year term, and its heady air still exhilarates him. The pride and zest with which he describes the convicts' resistance contrast sharply with the fury he expended on their earlier docility. In Gulag II he had thundered: "The strongest chains binding the prisoners were their own universal submission and total surrender to their situation as slaves...
Maude Coffin Pratt, focal point of Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...