Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down-home talent show, replete with dueling auctioneers and a chorus line of just plain folks wrapped in Old Glory. What makes the scene -- pure performance art -- so arresting, though, is not its content but its location. In the X-ray light of the setting sun, each catwalk and scaffold of a makeshift stage stands silhouetted against the empty spaces of the plains. At this instant, the vision of another artist leaps to mind: the spaceship sequence from Einstein on the Beach...
...wicker basket)." To this day the author has "no memory of the incident at all; only of having been told about it . . ." But at the age of eight he had a very accessible dream: "I saw the body of a hanged man dangling from the arm of a scaffold on a hill. When the wind caused the corpse to turn in the air, I saw that it was my face -- rotted and picked by the birds, but obviously mine. And then the corpse opened its eyes and looked at me." Permutations of both incidents would turn up in books...
Shultz set the tone for his mission during a preliminary stop in West Berlin. A few hours after he gazed across the Berlin Wall from a makeshift scaffold, the Secretary declared that the U.S. "does not accept the incorporation of Eastern Europe into a Soviet sphere of influence." But Shultz's pronouncement did not signal a new moral crusade. As official U.S. policy, the notion of "liberation" has long since been discredited and abandoned. Administration officials now speak more blandly of "differentiation" between East bloc countries. The aim, like that of every Administration since Lyndon Johnson's, is simply...
Eighteen judges, including Anne Boleyn's father, found More guilty of four counts of treason. The defendant died handsomely. To the soldier who helped him mount the scaffold he is reported to have said, "I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my. coming down, let me shift for myself...
...scaffold, Marius proposes, was the final stage for a player who may have acted to the end. Without presuming to answer, the author raises a question: Did More die for what he believed or for what he wanted to believe? If indeed'the last enemy for More was not fear but doubt, that makes him no less a hero, and even more of a modern saint. -By Melvin Maddocks