Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking bear many similarities to psychosis. A person may feel that he has powers which he did not previously have, or that certain laws of the environment (such as vulnerability) are not operative in his case. For example, feeling omnipotent, he believes he can jump out of the window with no harmful results...
...what is called by scientists the "orientation response," and by artists, a pun on the ambiguous relationship between art (the process of creation) and reality. Remember Blow-Up? The Black line is startling and forces this photograph to be viewed as a photograph, not as a scene through a window. The effect of the black line is re-enforced by the use of a wide-angle lens that distorts the twins and makes them ugly...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock's chiller starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly...
...produced. The prison doesn't provide models or try, through instruction, to direct the content of these paintings; the prisoners are left to their own imaginations, and one somehow expects the social outlaw, the man who just couldn't keep down the urge to throw a brick through a window, to be a little less-contained in front of the easel. One expects a convict-artist to have a more fearful vision than many of the spleenless seascapes and portraits in this show reveal...
...Window Shop was founded in 1939 to assist European refugees. It now helps new immigrants find employment and provides scholarship funds...