Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more interesting than ashtrays; there is not enough going on in them to hold the eye. Size is what makes them work, and when they are large, their internal structure of gusset and rib gives them a visual texture that they lack on the small scale. One needs to walk around them and clamber inside their angular crevices. The planes of steel, sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk implicit in large scale, and Pepper relishes it: the springing cantilever that seems about to topple...
...emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold my life in his saving grace." As the melody begins to rise, she floats a light true soprano above the whining steel guitar: "I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham if I thought I could see, I could see your face...
Robert M. Rozenzweigh, Stanford's vice president for university relations, said yesterday that he was aware that some seniors plan to walk out, but he said "it will probably be a small number...
...expect a serious problem--people have the right to walk out, and we assume that they will do so in a quiet dignified fashion," he said...
...would attend no more meetings of the Cabinet, in which he is a Minister Without Portfolio, until the newspaper was allowed to resume publication. His vow raised the threat that the Socialists, who won 38% in the last elections but hold no real power under the present system, might walk out of the military-dominated government and thereby strengthen the hold of the radicals...