Word: fells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HUMOROUS objects in both buildings fell into two categories: works of visual humor and three-dimensional drawings of literary witticisms. While plenty of fine, hard-to-handle glazes and well-made vessels were shown, the ceramicists (concentrated at Boston University) seemed to be the chief jokesters among craftsmen. In his six-foot high "Alice House Wall" Robert Arneson builds earthenware "stones" into a picture of a landscape with a ranch house. But its humor isn't in the subject-it's in the way the "stones" jostle and hug each other, and how the different blues, greens, oranges, pinks...
...were sleeping there), and the city and state police had always avoided the campus. Erwin seemed to be trying to goad the students into a riot (but we're such a docile bunch that we never responded-besides, his side had all the guns). When the first big cypress fell, he raised his hands up, clapped, and cheered. To the students he said, "I don't give a shit what you think." To a young mother lamenting the trees, "I couldn't care less about you or your children...
...bulldozers kept coming and kept coming, but the little twelve-foot sapling still wore its curse sign and still stood. One day, after about a week, the sign fell off. The next day the tree was gone...
...time on August 19, then went to the roof, climbed down the rope to a window, and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He removed the Bible from its display case and was attempting to climb down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...
Tents on the Lawns. By Weather Bureau reckoning, Camille was the most violent storm ever to strike the U.S. The hurricane's fury-210-m.p.h. winds and waves up to 22 ft. high-fell most savagely upon the Delta parish of Plaquemines, La., and a 35-mile shorefront strip of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Waveland. Both areas remain a jumble of devastation. Hundreds of homes, motels and other business establishments stand roofless or without walls. Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides. Some families are living in tents on their front lawns...