Word: ropes
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...graphic depicting a man hanging from his wrists by a red rope next to the words ‘Freedom from slavery, torture, and degrading treatment’ was projected onto Widener Library last night as part of a series of black, white, and red words and images in filmmaker Julie Mallozi’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ‘60.30.1’ light installation by Mallozzi begins a week’s worth of events celebrating the anniversary. The piece, whose title is a reference...
...Then I came back to my room, and thought I'd try to get onto the ledge outside the window. I made an escape rope with bedsheets, and to make it longer, tied up curtains as well. But those were too slippery. The rope had to be abandoned anyway when I realised the fire was just beneath...
...Movie”, is perhaps his most famous film. The work is a collage inter-cutting various scenes of restless, frustrated, even comically absurd mobility—men on horses, novelty bicycles, surfboards, water-skis and racecars—clips of peep-show footage, air disasters, tight-rope walkers, and myriad other images, set to the sounds of Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Its narrative framework, to the extent that there is one, is fleeting. Conner takes pains to thwart any clear interpretation, but motifs of modern warfare, performitivity...
Scanning crowds while the President walks a rope line is a given. But agents have also had to respond to unique security challenges--from rigging traffic lights while Truman strolled through Washington to shielding President Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy, from a charging elephant at a pet show on Ethel Kennedy's Virginia estate. While the demeanor (sunglasses, earpieces, constant vigilance) and the danger are what captivate the public, monitoring for fiscal malfeasance is still half the job. In August, the Secret Service helped crack what was heralded as the largest identity-theft ring in U.S. history...
...such efforts fail, there's little for the crew to do but watch the pirates use grappling hooks and rope ladders to climb aboard and take them hostage. "The crews [of the captured ships] are not exorbitantly large," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday. (That's an understatement: the supertanker's crew of 25 runs a ship three times the size of a Nimitz-class U.S. carrier, which is manned by 3,200 sailors, not including the 2,500 responsible for flying and maintaining its aircraft.) "So once they have access," Mullen added, "they...