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...stir sickens, and falls into barn shadows, spills...
...placed his new figures in real environments. He grouped diners'around a real table, put a truck driver behind a real steering wheel. For his Subway, he discovered that the Transit Authority was about to scrap a car, and trucked it to his old chicken barn, which he now uses as a studio. Dismembered, refurbished, equipped with programmed flashing lights and one lone girl passenger rapt in some dream of her own, Subway now transforms one wall of the Janis gallery into a vivid simulation of the flickering trauma of underground travel...
...feeling that it co-exists rather uneasily with his constituency of lower-middle class wage-earners in the big industrial cities. Although they affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support which has transformed Wallace from a regional to a national figure...
...none of the churches affected are letting actuarial worries curb their activism. Says the Rev. Albert Q. Perry, pastor of the Church of the Mediator: "We can always meet in a barn. But we can't meet anywhere if we haven't got the principles." As a stopgap solution, the Arlington Street congregation has instituted its own fire watch: volunteers from the parish take turns patrolling the church every night...
Throughout the country, black flags of mourning appeared on buildings, statues and monuments. On walls, barn doors, highway signs, car and store windows, the Czechoslovaks tacked up posters and chalked messages demanding in all the languages of the Warsaw Pact that the invaders go home. One message scrawled on a wall in Prague read: "Lenin, wake up. Brezhnev has gone mad!" Said another: "Hungarians, go home. Have you not had enough of these things?" Wenceslas Square turned into a fleet of Czechoslovak flags bobbing on a sea of demonstrators, who shouted in the direction of the 20 tanks parked among...