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...same as the first. The 62-page booklet calls again for "mass fence takedown along whole sections of the perimeter allowing large numbers of people to move onto the site simultaneously." Again there will be gasmasks and bolt cutters; grappling hooks are much discussed, and the organizers recommend bringing "plywood for shielding...
Surprise and shock is one explanation--police have a harder time beating a person who is standing his ground without resisting than they do a plywood-wielding opponent. Not that they won't beat and arrest and oppress; American history proves that they will. But it may be harder to maintain a campaign of terror for psychological reasons alone...
...HUMAN form--manipulated, distorted fractured, parodied--recurs throughout the show. In Picasso's "Woman in an Armchair" a schematic body is cut into two-dimensional sections as if from plywood. A later work with the same name shares the hideous distortions of the figures in his "Guernica" mural. Inhuman cones and spirals combine in odd juxtapositions of anatomy...
Artists have already painted murals on plywood barriers at two of the stations under construction in Cambridge, and further projects are planned, Dowley said...
Expanding plywood pathways, grating bulldozers, groaning cranes and legions of construction workers are part of Harvard Square's ambiance these days--but it's a change some can do without...