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...falls to Berkeley chancellor Ira Michael Heyman, who was never enthusiastic about building a monument, to decide whether to accept the Art Project's gift. The question he must ask himself: Is it right to take free speech for granite...
...California's Berkeley campus, where students used to major in telling the Establishment where to get off, know how to give the college administration a Maalox moment. Last July more than 100 faculty members who call themselves the Berkeley Art Project launched a nationwide contest to select a fitting monument to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which paved the way for radical political activity and violent anti-Vietnam War protests on the campus...
...itself a Potemkin village, complete with a bank, drugstore, barbershop, pool hall, Greyhound bus station, coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...
Tower of trash. In Toulouse, the activist group Friends of the Earth will unveil a 2.5-meter (8-ft.) tall garbage sculpture titled Monument to the Unknown Refuse...
...Your letter is such a monument to obfuscation and sophistic logic, I feel compelled to pursue this issue." (Big frown...