Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectator, the corners of his mouth twitch as though my bewilderment amuses him. "Did you know about the Polish-Americans?" The general manager sneaks up while the scribbler is saying that he would prefer to continue our conversation in Polish or Lithuanian. The general manager intends to lock this lunatic up, or give him the ax: he sends the usher to find an ax. The lunatic asks if this place is chauvinistic, which sounds like a reasonable question to me. But an approaching police siren shoos him off without an answer. I must be staring at the frenzied general manager...
...work together. Though Karami began seeking a solution in Parliament last week, so many of its 99 deputies refused to venture out in the line of fire that a 50-member quorum was never mustered. Karami then invited nine key factional leaders to join him in his office and lock themselves in until something had been hammered out. Only two accepted the invitation; in desperation Karami threatened to resign, was talked out of it and began calling in leaders for private sessions...
...occasion Caldwell will tell the last man out of the theater to lock her in, then gaze for hours at the stage (and boxes, which she regularly uses as an extension of the stage), trying to figure out a way to adjust that small rectangle to her large vision. She has been known to doze off-one time lying in a heap of curtains in an aisle -and be ready to go the next morning...
...although the students may want to sneak through the connecting doors in Lamont for a quick look at the library, they would be advised to wait until "sometime in mid-winter," because the doors will lock behind them, leaving them trapped and with nothing to read...
...curators of the Great American art boom (circa 1962-73), not one tried to give an account of what was being painted in Europe. The reason, as everyone "knew," was that European art no longer mattered. Paris was over; London, a village; only New York had a hammer lock on history. This eminently questionable belief, fathered by chauvinism and fed by the largest promotional apparatus in the history of art, lay at the root of American art politics in the '60s and formed the taste of a generation of museumgoers. Now the retreat is on. An exhibition called "European...