Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Nicholson, manager of the Off the Wall Theatre, said yesterday his operating permit specifically states that showings can run from 4:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. "To the best of my memory, when we applied for our general license someone asked what hours we would be showing movies. We told him and he just typed it on the permit...
...rested ten minutes before setting off again. Then I went for half an hour before resting. I started again, sweating now, breathing harder, throat drying, back and legs burning from the sun, and as I came around a ledge I ran smack into what joggers call The Wall. Not The Wall at Fenway Park, but a massive physiological-psychological being who sits on your chest and squeezes your lungs and makes each step an act of supreme will worthy of a Nietzschean Superman...
Part of the problem is the stone wall thrown up by many oldtimers at the agency, which provides $5 billion a year worth of office space, supplies and housekeeping services to federal bureaucrats. The GSA veterans have survived past attempts at reform, and many of them are determined to tough out the current investigations. Said Alto: "You wouldn't believe the resistance we are meeting." So far, despite President Carter's instructions that he net some "bigger fish," Alto has been able to build cases against only small-fry officials and contractors...
Butch Hobson contributed to the onpour with two doubles and a single. Scott, Burleson, Remy and Fisk combined their singles for two runs. And it all came down with a grunt in the eighth, when Fisk walked, Yaz singled, and Lynn tripled off the left field wall for two runs. Hobson's long single off the center field wall in that inning brought in two more. All told, the Sox banged out 16 hits...
This year's room, he says, promises to be more aesthetic, less angular than last year's. And, like last year's Kasper is designing the entire project from scratch. He is careful to stay within University regulations by not nailing anything into the wall; all his structures are self-supporting...