Word: glass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's mostly Protestant police "do what they like," say sullen residents. This night they did, using batons and water cannons furiously in the narrow streets, as the Bogsiders fought back ferociously. Bricks ricocheted off buildings or disintegrated shop windows. Petrol bombs bounced and flared in the glass-shard-littered streets. One crowd attacked a police station and another overturned a police truck and set it afire. Though 290 were wounded in the fray, miraculously no one died...
Then, a group of students took the issue up more directly. That evening an unknown number of students stole into the recitation room of Mr. Durkin to make their point. They made it with force. "The recitation room was wholly demolished," reported Moore, "all the glass broken--and all the furniture broken and thrown out the window." The College government was incensed by this outrage...
...camera angle or a certain lighting merely extends the expressive possibilities which the script offers the director. But in Ulmer's case exploitation becomes flights of pure imagination. In one scene Karloff goes to put out the cat. He walks down a dark hall into a gallery lined with glass cases. Passing from one, in which a blonde woman in a white frock is suspended, to the next, his reflections in the glass and the woman's frame each other and make the sequence flow. The romantic music beneath, instead of making the moment sentimental, shapes its transformations of appearance...
Staring Out. As the old aphorism suggests, people who live in glass houses should not get stoned. Spying on one's neighbors is one of the most popular pastimes at U.N. Plaza. "The people across the way have a telescope," says a penthouse dweller. "I presume they are looking." The presumption seems fair. Over cocktails one night in the rooftop restaurant of the neighboring Beekman Towers, Sam and Alyce Simon accidentally discovered that the restaurant commanded a marvelous view of their bedroom...
...questions, such as What is Life? with an earnest lyric gift. At times he captures the bubble-like transiency of youth with touching Gallic elan ("Who wrote 'I love you' on a cigarette paper and then smoked it? Who picked a flower and put it in a glass of water? Who ate a vanilla ice on September 14, 1966, at twenty-five minutes to midnight, thinking that it was an eternal ice-cream cone, an eternal ice, an eternal yellow-white flavour?"). He is also adept at playing those "In" games French readers love, the sounding of literary...