Word: rafter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of Chicago's International Amphitheatre, all manholes have been sealed with tar. A chain-link fence, seven feet high and topped with barbed wire, is going into place west of the arena. Secret Service men are checking every pipe, seat and rafter against bombs or snipers' hiding places. Taking antiwar demonstrators at their word, Chicago officials are preparing for every possible disruption at next week's Democratic National Convention. In the process, the nation's second largest city is beginning to take on the appearance of a city under siege...
While Sheraf Stewart is off tending to his wife, who seems to be in the throes of a breech delivery, the Fonda gang revenge themselves by hanging the half-wit from a rafter. Gentle James the lawman then takes them all on, High Noon style, in the now classic sneak-shoot through the silent town while frightened eyes peer from behind shuttered windows...
Once settled in carpeted luxury on the extrawide, foam-cushioned seats, spectators were treated to views unencumbered by pillars, thanks to the structure's 407-ft., rafter-free span that is suspended by taut cables resembling the spokes of a bicycle wheel. With the Forum's time already booked for 200 days in 1968, Cooke could finally relax, proclaim his new sports palace "a timeless place, something a man can be proud...
...offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order to pull herself together-and let the audience cool down a bit. It must have worked. She returned-eyes flashing, pacing the stage like a tigress-and finished the act with a fiery, rafter-ringing performance...
...dealers met at the home of Critic Doris Lane Butler, did plans get off the ground. And not until 1966 was President Joseph Randall Shapiro able to find suitable space for the new museum-in a handsomely renovated onetime bakery on East Ontario Street. There last week, with a rafter-raising cocktail party replete with macromesh dresses and one dead woodpecker hung around a girl's neck by Artist Ray Johnson, the new Museum of Contemporary Art announced its arrival...