Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tibor de Nagy gallery last week, he proves an ability to make folk theater in paint. In his Slab City Rendezvous, for instance, people misproportioned in daydream dimensions pose in the front yard of a Maine summer home, while an artist and his easel stand on the rooftop, projecting above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision...
...their vows of revenge, the Malcolm X followers were as good as their word. In Harlem, less than 36 hours after the murder, a fire bomb tossed from an adjacent rooftop through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
...Holmes's trusty lieutenants in an artily choreographed frenzy of mincing violence. From time to time, the orchestra strikes up, but scarcely tunes. Where there's smoke, there's fog, and that is where most of the London atmosphere comes from, except for a rooftop view of the Diamond Jubilee Parade through Trafalgar Square, with tiny Grenadier Guard puppets and the Queen's jeweled coach crossing a slanted backdrop that for one enchanting moment truly fools the eye with a child's dream of pomp...
...small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
...orders a year. Macy's also has a private police force big enough to protect a city the size of Des Moines; it is captained by an ex-FBI agent, who presides over an array of secret photoelectric alarms and six Doberman pinschers, which emerge from their rooftop kennels to patrol the floors after dark...