Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through a Glass Darkly. A wise and warm and frightening picture in which Ingmar Bergman tells the story of a young woman (Harriet Andersson) who looks through a crack in the wall that limits reason from unreason and on the other side sees God-an enormous spider...
Progress in winning pledges for ransom contributions was charted on a large wall graph in Oberdorfer's office. The American Red Cross agreed to act as middleman in the exchange. Justice Department officials approached the trade associations of drug, medical and food industries. Five officials of the American Pharmaceutical Association came to Washington, saw the Attorney General. Referring to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Bobby said, "My brother made a mistake." and implied that the prisoner exchange would be one way of rectifying...
...wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...bygone eras, sweeping stairways, ornate moldings and sparkling chandeliers graced the main lobbies of great concert halls, but such fusty amenities would never do for the austere lobby of Architect Max Abramovitz' new Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The three outside walls are simple glass arcades; on the inner wall run three balconies that make the space, which is 190 ft. by 25 ft., seem even longer than it is. Abramovitz from the beginning sensed the need for a sculpture that would "float in space and relate in a contemporary manner to the interior...
...Manhattan department store salesman. Dale was a blunt redhead with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...