Word: glare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer evoke 19th century triumphs but this century's despair...
...concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...
...roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes. The light washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections in a pond...
...crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...
...mountains was fading. That night the survivors huddled together in the wrecked fuselage. When dawn came next morning, they ripped off seat covers and put on rugby uniforms over their light summer-weight clothes for extra warmth. Pieces of tinted glass from plane windows became sunglasses against the snow glare. On a transistor radio hooked up to the plane's only working battery, they heard that a search had begun. When a plane appeared overhead, they flashed pieces of aluminum from the wreckage to signal it. The effort was in vain; the wrecked fuselage was white and invisible against...