Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Woodward left, mother and daughter sat up in their beds talking. They were still awake at 4 a.m. when a man who identified himself as a detective knocked on the door and said he had information about an auto accident involving a man in a white Ford. Thinking that Woodward had been hurt, Mrs. Mackle opened the door and found herself confronted by a masked man carrying a shotgun, and a smaller person wearing a ski mask, who, Mrs. Mackle thought, might be a twelve-year-old boy. After binding Mrs. Mackle hand and foot, the kidnapers seized Barbara...
...first glance, the constructions of H. C. Westermann seem as innocent as something made for a child. Many of them look like dollhouses and, like dollhouses, have doors that open and windows to peer through into magical interiors where tiny figures go about their unknown business. But wait. Take the centerpiece of a comprehensive show of Westermann's work mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum. Its title is the first eye opener: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. The figure's mouth is an angry gap, its nose vaguely phallic, its ears...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...
...many firms that have not been restricted by the exchange, brokers are also quick to show the door to the speculator whose hankering for cheap stocks usually means a foray into the untidy over-the-counter market, where most of today's stock-delivery foul-ups occur. Says a broker at Chicago's G.H. Walker & Co.: "Frankly, we're going to refuse the guy who wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since...
...cigar butt in her mouth. There is also the customary hugging of childhood dolls, the eerie apartment, the screeching lovers' quarrels. Mercy and Childie have one love scene of unprecedented explicitness, but even that is not let alone. George catches the lovers en flagrante, throwing open the door in the manner of a Joan Crawford melodrama. In the fervent exploration of once-forbidden terrain, film makers are understandably attracted to themes of homosexuality. Still, treating lesbians as if they were only men in skirts is like treating children as if they were only small adults. Both attitudes are false...