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...costly kiosks? According to Justin Harmon, director of commmunications and publications at Princeton, their kiosk is part of a multi-million dollar renovation of Alexander Hall, the main campus concert facility, and the adjacent Stockton Court plaza. The redesigned entrance area will eliminate traffic congestion and give visitors "a sense of place," he said...
About a mile away, in a plaza of cultural palaces around a gushing fountain, patrons stroll into the white marble monument that houses Los Angeles' older, more conventional-seeming Mark Taper Forum. Visually, the contrast between the Taper and the L.A.T.C. is stark. But the ferment, the embrace of the new and the political consciousness are much the same at both. Throughout its 21-year history under artistic director Gordon Davidson, the Taper has thrived on controversy. FBI agents, for example, sat alert at the opening of Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping...
Avril reported Namphy's ouster at about 2:30 a.m., several hours after shooting broke out at the main plaza in front of the presidential palace. The gunshots sent dozens of people fleeing for cover...
Engagement, in fact, is the very essence of Seoul, a vigor and emotionalism that find expression in the fierceness of the city's rites. At the World Evangelical Crusade in the Yoido Plaza last month, half a million Christians gathered round, crying "Allelujah!," their bodies swaying, their faces suffused with joy, tears streaming from their tight-closed eyes. Yet even in their ecstasies, the devotees were model citizens of Seoul: almost no one stood up, lest he obscure another's view...
...facts are fairly indisputable, although someone, somewhere will provide arguments to the contrary. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded while riding in a motorcade around Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Almost exactly 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, was gunned down in front of live television cameras while being transferred from one jail to another. He died shortly thereafter...