Word: mcpherson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DEMONSTRATIONS Get out your black armband. It's the biggest Inaugural protest since Nixon's, in 1973. Police and Secret Service are mobilizing 7,000 officers for a predicted 20,000 demonstrators, some of them veterans of Seattle '99. Expect placards reading hail to the thief. McPherson Square, Freedom Plaza and the Justice Department...
...checkpoint and have their bags checked. Protesters already up in arms over newly erected barriers surrounding inaugural sites are newly frustrated by the small spaces around the city in which they will be allowed to gather. Police have designated three spots near the parade route where protests are permitted: McPherson Square, two blocks from the White House; Freedom Plaza between 14th and 13th streets; and on the actual route, next to the Justice Department...
...stern Puritanism of eastern American origins. One of the few intentionally funny paintings in the show--there are plenty that look funny but weren't meant to be--is Barse Miller's 1932 view of a downtown temple in L.A. over which floats the apparition of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist and sexpot, flanked by figures of Venus, her lover in a straw hat, and little top-hatted putti clutching sacks of dollars like teeny refugees from a Popular Front cartoon of bosses...