Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million people, Elizabeth is the living symbol of oppression to the 500,000 Catholic minority, and officials feared some kind of retaliation. Sure enough, as the royal bubble-top limousine rolled through the city, a 12-lb. chunk of concrete was tossed at the car from a fourth-story window, miraculously glancing off the hood. Later that day a woman bounced a beer bottle off the bubble-top. The Queen never lost her cool. 'Tough car," she quipped as she finished her tour...
...climax of privacy came, for the Western middle class, in the early 20th century, with the heavily built and uniformly heated house. But gradually, in architecture and in the imagination, the wall gave way to the window. This reflected not only an esthetic desire to let in light, but also the new creed of community, which distrusts private brooding. Besides, crowded cities made space ever more expensive, leading to "open plan" domestic architecture. The dining room became a corner of the living room, the family room opened off the kitchen, producing an illusion of greater space-and the fact...
...signs of overstress are plentiful. Many Americans are suffering from a sense that they are invaded. Their neighbor's picture window looks in on theirs, the freeways are too crowded, the beaches are jammed. Says Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury: "The best thing that could happen to New York would be to blow up every other block and plant the rubble with grass, turning it into gardens and pools so that people could get away from...
...represent a British sewing-machine company that was seeking a factory site, the agent called on the Klements' neighbors. Yes, the lady there was interested in selling her property. The agent wondered if the people next door might also be interested. Unexpectedly, the woman jumped to the window and shouted, "Señora Klement, would you sell your house for a sewing-machine factory...
...balcony scene was played in a style that could only be described as Socialist surrealism. High above the cheering crowds and the nodding lindens of Gorky Street, Charles de Gaulle beamed magnificently from the very window in Moscow's massive, 19th century city hall where Lenin had exhorted the revolutionaries of 1919. "I am in finitely touched," De Gaulle began. "I bring you the greetings of the Parisian people and the people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies...