Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is one remaining problem in Segal's work. Where to put it? Subway in the corner of a living room would impose the clickety-clack of rails maddeningly on the inner ear. The woman emerging from her shower stall obviously expects privacy. Each of them seems to demand a room...
...lies supine, eyes staring, engrossed in the melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting. Attendants pad back and forth, visiting silently with guests or passing out toys: slide projectors, mirrors, kaleidoscopes, helium-filled balloons. A long-haired girl ties four of the balloons to her tresses and parades serenely along the walkway, looking like the Wicked Witch...
...pinnacle of power, the President of the U.S. is nonetheless under unremitting and microscopic scrutiny. Once, a President could get away from it all with relative ease - as U. S. Grant did with his regular evening strolls down Pennsylvania Avenue to smoke a cigar, undisturbed, in a corner of the lobby of the now-doomed Willard Hotel; or, as Teddy Roosevelt did, with the "lonely walks" that he took at every opportunity. To day the ever-present eyes of newsmen and the TV camera - not to mention the vastly increased authority of the presidency in world affairs-make such forays...
Leaving Hilles every 30 minutes from 6:15 to 12:45, the bus will stop at the Fogg Museum, Lamont Library, the corner of Dunster Street and Mass Ave., and finally at Lowell House. of the briefs submitted by the State and the defense. It will hand down its decision between 30 and 60 days from today...
...frozen ground, when fingers numbed by cold try to hammer out the five tutorial papers due by dawn, when the sparkly conversation of a Lesley College charmer is not quite enough to make a satisfactory night's entertainment. On those bleak days, an ideal Lampoon would appear at the corner newsstands. And like a speech by Al Vellucci or a chance meeting with a Yalie, it would make Harvard students forget all their minor problems and look at life with wry benevolence again...