Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese press, interview diplomats and businessmen who have recently emerged from inside. Hong Kong is the main center for this activity, but other busy China-watching posts include Tokyo, Washington, London, Paris, Vienna, and the Communist capitals of Eastern Europe. The most startling sources of news are the huge wall posters that all week continued to pop up in the big cities, calling for or recounting mass purges (unreported in the Chinese press) and naming the latest leaders to fall into disfavor...
...cover. During a two-hour session, the President talked brilliantly, flitting from subject to subject, while the Kurds, fascinated, tried to concentrate on sketching him. Later Johnson took the Hurds through the White House's private quarters, proudly pointed out a Hurd landscape hung on the wall opposite the presidential bed. To Johnson's eye, it captured perfectly the look of Texas ranch country...
During the early months, he rammed his head against the plaster cell wall. He raved again and again that Jews were being tortured and killed because Gentiles wanted revenge for his crime. He shouted that he could hear screams from the jail cellar, machine guns in the street. Often he would slip his visitors bits of paper with phone numbers scribbled on them in an oddly womanish hand, whispering desperately: "These people have been murdered. They're all out to get the Jews, and these people won't answer the phone because they're dead." Usually...
Swim by Swimming. Like news being flashed on a neon sign in Times Square, accounts of the Nanking battle quickly appeared on Red Guard posters on Peking's walls. "Suddenly," said one wall poster, "an attack was mounted by the workers on our revolutionary group office, and 20 of our comrades were dragged away." When other Red Guards went to negotiate for their release, "the workers suddenly turned atrocious and ripped off the fingers, noses, tongues and ears of our representatives. After murdering them, they threw the bodies from the fourth-floor windows. The situation in Nanking is exceedingly...
...immense red-upholstered theatre listening to a six-track stereophonic overture, surrounded by a 160 degree are of curtain. The overture fades, the lights dim, and as the projectors start to roll, the red curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins to run parallel with the extreme left and right aisles. Finally it stops--just short of engulfing the audience...