Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selective service headquarters in Washington, sat in the front doorway and blocked traffic until police carried him away. Before the show, he made sure of news coverage by handing out a press release saying that his actions were aimed at making sure that Judge Tyler would send him to prison...
...altercations, Jones and Jonson split (the argument, naturally, concerned who should get top billing). But so popular was Jones with Connoisseur King Charles that Jonson was forced to retire from court. Jones continued to rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...
Baird faces up to 13 years in prison for violating laws classified as "crimes against chastity." He passed out copies of the laws at the meeting and then proceeded to criticize them point by point...
Physical confinement can turn a man loose on himself. Things around him don't change, so his imagination may set off on its own for variety. In Massachusetts state prisons, a part of a convict's day is marked off as free time -- the pool room and TV parlor are opened, and a guard watches as the prisoners relax. Some prisoners, however, go off in these free moments to paint in prison studios...
Many of the artists in this show are killers -- all but two of the prisons represented are maximum security institutions -- and what is most startling about this exhibit is the number of evenly-wrought, painfully conventional paintings which these men produced. The prison doesn't provide models or try, through instruction, to direct the content of these paintings; the prisoners are left to their own imaginations, and one somehow expects the social outlaw, the man who just couldn't keep down the urge to throw a brick through a window, to be a little less-contained in front...