Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...slightly more than an hour, beginning at 1:10 p.m., the marchers peaceably walked in a long elipse along the wall at the Southwest end of the Yard just opposite the Kiosk. The demonstrators, most of them from Toscin, the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club, and the Young Socialist Alliance--the three sponsoring organizations--handed out copies of a policy statement during the picketing...
Later in the afternoon, however, another group of about 10 spectators began to form a human wall across the sidewalk to prevent the marchers from continuing in their elipse. After rejecting the request of Mary S. Gillmor '64, a demonstration organizer, to leave the sidewalk, the group was dispersed by a policeman...
...promenade is within easy reach of everyone in the theater, and when the balconies fill with strollers at intermissions, the walls, as Johnson says, seem "papered with people." Intricate grilles along the balconies, crystal lights against the inner wall, and a golden bead curtain across the full sweep of the glass wall that faces the plaza give the room a noble, vaguely Venetian glow. It is the perfect place in which to pop a champagne cork...
...visual research is often challenged as phony. Yet in the permutations of pattern that sometimes hurt and sometimes enchant human vision lie the power and the challenge to change reality. As Bridget Riley says, "I wish somebody would give me a big wall to destroy. I mean, to make it no longer seem a wall...