Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall has long since pulled down the shutters on West Berlin's "show window to the East," robbing the city of its old excitement and sense of purpose. To make matters worse, the West German recession has caused a severe Berlin business slump. On top of all that, Mayor Willy Brandt went to Bonn last December and turned his job over to Heinrich Albertz, a hapless preacher-turned-politician who was unable to rule his own party, let alone the largest (pop. 2,191,000) city in Germany...
...there they were, right in front of the 24-year-old fortress with three times the floor space of the Empire State Building where the Defense Department lives and where the sportcoated Secretary of Defense was watching them out of his window...
...Dozen, Penn forces on us the relentless destruction of the human body. Even as the audience laughs at one of the gang's hilariously bungled getaways, a bank clerk jumps on the running board of the car and has his face blown off by a shot through the car window. The camera remains fixed on the bloody head as the car squeals around corners and the body refuses to disengage itself from the door. Again and again the camera will not spare us the after-effects of the gun battles, and we are trapped inside the getaway car as members...
...Shah's attempts at political reform have been less thorough. He reopened Parliament in 1963, but uses it mostly for window dressing. All candidates must be approved by SAVAK, his powerful security police, and elections are so arranged as to give the Shah's Iran Novin (New Iran) Party an overwhelming majority of the seats. The Shah, in fact, makes little pretense of being a democrat. "For 2,500 years," he says, "we have had a monarchical system, which implies a certain amount of imposed authority." His word is law, and he keeps his Prime Minister, Amirabass Hoveida...
...Dealer Walter Silva has seen his paintings shaken off the wall; girls in the suburban Montecito Post Office live in fear the next boom will shatter their office's plate glass window; and Archie Banks, who watches for booms on his seismograph, says that they leave tracks on the recording drums like those of minor earthquakes. In response, Santa Barbarans have been bombarding city hall to do something. Last week city hall did. By a vote of 6-1, the city council passed an ordinance declaring a sonic boom an "unlawful public nuisance," with fines...