Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Bird's speech on beautification to a closed audience, her press secretary moved from table to table suggesting, "I'd like to see a standing ovation." Outside, meanwhile, 1200 students were holding a 10-minute silent demonstration, when suddenly a record-player blared in a nearby dorm room window...
...hour later, two hippies clambered to a porch outside the bathroom window and looked in. They saw Billy's body in the tub. His wrists had been slashed and a broken wine bottle thrust deep into his chest. Billy's mother, Carol Metherd, 24, sat silent on the puddled floor, her hands, T shirt and slacks soaked with blood. The two horrified hippies smashed their way into the room. Carol later curled on the floor in a fetal position; her only sign of life was the rolling of her eyes...
...Ravi Shankar's drums and a change in color tone point up an insert shot of villainous Burroughs, a close-up we later realize is imagined by Harwick (although neither he nor we have seen him before). Arriving at the sanitarium, Harwick looks warily out the car window, and Rooks cuts to his point-of-view: a blur of color suddenly coming into sharp focus revealing the chateau in an angle-shot accentuating its Castle Draculaaura. This is followed by a montage of different fantasies of Harwick resisting entering the sanitarium, in which he imagines himself Quasimodo. Chappaqua proceeds best...
...transistor music from peddlers' sampans; a visitor to an Ecuadorian minga, in which the Indians come together for communal road building, calculated that at least one tiny transistor radio was sounding its unavoidable message every 20 yards along the two-mile road. Radio has long been the window on the world for isolated areas, but the cheapness and portability of the transistor set has given the medium a new mobility and a new dimension-and a vast measure of influence. For Peru's 12 million inhabitants, there are more than 600 radio stations, and radio reaches the ears...
...worked for three companies to get seasoning for a career in management. He was doing well at his latest job in the corporate planning department of Olivetti-Underwood Corp., where he was involved in efforts to ac quire new companies. Then, one morning, while staring moodily out the window of a New York Central commuter train, Colvin had an idea. Instead of making mergers himself, why not teach other people how to make them...