Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nora, however, cannot lock out the crescendo of revolution in the streets of Dublin outside her window, an uprising that would culminate in the Easter revolution of 1916. At the end of the play, having lost her husband and child to the violence of the revolt she was trying to shut out, Nora escapes the madhouse that Dublin has become by refusing to acknowledge it, by creating a fantasy world in which she imagines herself walking with her Jack in the country...
Many details of this clamorous scene I learned later. It was said that one gentle old lady, in her Passion to enter, smashed in a front window with her Umbrella. Much was made of the muddy boots that tramped over damask-covered sofas, of the unrelenting drumroll of breaking crockery and crystal, of bloody Noses, hysterical Women, ram pant gluttony. I have always resented the Contumelies ("rabble," "Mob") heaped on the 20,000 Neighbors who called on me in my new dwelling-place that brisk March day. Yet I freely allow that the shattered windows and ruined Carpets that greeted...
...they eye every approaching stranger with suspicion. As they walk, some may clutch a police whistle in their hands. More often, especially after the sun sets, they stay at home, their world reduced to the confines of apartments that they turn into fortresses with locks and bars on every window and door. They are the elderly who live in the slums of the nation's major cities. Many are poor. White or black, they share a common fear-that they will be attacked, tortured or murdered by the teen-age hoodlums who have coolly singled out old people...
...even afraid to put out her trash; she stuffed it in plastic bags, which she stored in a spare room. When one room would fill up, she would seal it off and start filling up another. At times she lived on candy bars, tossing coins out of a window to children who would go to the store for her. Visiting The Bronx, a reporter from the New York Times talked to Clara Engelmann, 64, who had moved her bed into the foyer of her apartment and slept fully dressed so she could dash out the door the next time someone...
...wont to describe himself as "white Taixas trash." By this time, Rauschenberg's marriage had mutated into friendship, and there had been a divorce in 1953. In 1955 Rauschenberg moved into a loft in the building in lower Manhattan where Johns had his studio. They supported themselves by doing window displays for Tiffany and Bonwit Teller...