Word: sectionals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...only are the projects removed from the public, they are isolated from each other. It's a little hard to tell from models how things will look, but it's clear enough that each artist received a section to fill individually. Harvard ends up with stained glass, Hadzi's found objects, and (at Brattle) a twenty-foot brick pylon. Porter Square gets the gloves, the boulders, a mobile, and a huge granite ripple. Art remains object, isolated appendages tacked onto architecture...
Operation World, by P.J. Johnstone, is a grossly oversimplified view of the religious and political situation of every established country in the world. In a section titled, "Points for Prayer", Johnstone says of Saudi Arabia, "The vast oil wealth is now being used to propogate Islam all over the world." A pamphlet available at Urbana Onward also rails against Islam, calling the Muslim world "perhaps the largest stronghold of Satan to refuse the Savior...
...escape of the six began on the rainy day of the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4. While the assault centered on the main embassy building, five of the six escapees were working in an adjoining consular section within the compound. Mark Lijek had been processing visas that morning. Among his visitors was Kim King, 27, a tourist from Oregon who had stayed on in Iran for six months to teach English to local businessmen. He had both overstayed his visa and lost his passport, with its date-of-entry stamp, and he sought Lijek...
...Canadian embassy to seek refuge. By then, Kathy Stafford and Mark Lijek had somehow been reunited with their spouses. Ambassador Taylor later said his staff had been "unanimous" in wanting "to do everything we could to help." On Nov. 10 the five Americans who had worked in the consular section showed up at the Canadian embassy. It was not until Nov. 22 that the sixth American, Schatz, also joined the group. He had escaped the siege because his office was outside the embassy compound. He had since been staying with "friends...
...alternates, a painstakingly slow process. By week's end 53 had been chosen. All had been required to answer 70 written inquiries about their education, employment, health-even their hobbies and reading habits. In court, Edwin J. Tomko, a member of the Justice Department's fraud section, asked each potential juror in a high-pitched voice whether he or she had seen or heard any accounts of the case, formed an opinion or read LaBelle's book This Too Shall Pass. In a silky Southern voice, Defense Attorney Nickolas P. Chilivis asked jury candidates if they...