Word: bricked
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...contrast with those expansive views, Levitt also frequently collapses her depth of focus. Brick walls—blank or covered in graffiti—provide frequent backdrops, and for this reason her pictures could truly be anywhere, but they carry a special connotation because the audience knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt?...
That is the sound of a brick kreasing a kat's kranium. Ignatz Mouse lives for making such a noise, just as Krazy Kat lives to hear it and Officer Pupp lives to prevent it. Krazy, you see, loves Ignatz. For him (or her, as Krazy's gender remains ambiguous) Ignatz' tossed brick arrives with as much love as any bouquet. Completing the ancient dramatic triangle, Officer Pupp's unacknowledged love for Krazy hides behind his bounded duty to prevent all such brick-tossing. Undoubtedly the most remarkable of all variations on a theme, Herriman managed to create decades-worth...
...rutted road. Sabur was in the back of a brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed...
Rolling past Soldiers Field, past the red brick buildings of the Business School and towards Harvard’s prospects for the future, the number 66 bus reaches the corner of Western Ave. and North Harvard...
Vicens would collapse when their supports were removed, their projecting brick corbels being unable to bear their weight. The worker even stayed on for several hours that evening, waiting to see disaster happen. The galleries remain today, just as Gaudí designed them...