Word: sides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the courtroom, surrounded by a phalanx of blue-coated court guards, sat the defendants, 13 Black Panthers in coarse working clothes. Glowering, hooting, they yelled and swore, keeping up a desultory cacophony of epithets, calling the judge and Phillips "fascists," "pigs" and "racists." In the audience behind them, Panther supporters in Afro haircuts, shawls and dashikis joined in the sporadic bedlam, ridiculing Murtagh's determined calls for order. Shouted one defendant, Richard Moore: "This is nothing but an electric circus, a racist Babylon!" Twice fights broke out, and one woman was cited for contempt of court...
...graphically to the automobile. What better symbol for modern culture? As we calmly drive our cars on the highway, does it occur to us that our own life and death is almost completely out of our hands? That at any moment we might perish because somebody on the other side of the road is watching the sunset, or hits an oil-slick, or is just crazy? And if even Camus died that way can any of us be immune...
...pace slowly accelerates in rooms where paintings are brightly lit, and hung side by side. The monumental ornate Baroque paintings and tapestries have no need for any additional atmosphere. A contemporary work of art would look equally ridiculous if it were off-set by a dramatic spotlight in a darkened room, placed in a display that has no connection to the environment of today...
...some partitions. The closeness of paintings and sculptures and the directions that the viewer must walk in order to see all the things make a burst of movement. In this confusion, the largest. simplest canvas dominates, a work by Morris Louis with streams of Acrylic color poured down each side and an area of gaping white in the middle. The eye must leap among the different rhythms in the room-from the fragility of Giacometti figure to the heavy rounded bronze body by Maillol. Among the modern things, a few seem as rare as the ancient discoveries. One tiny, unusual...
...there's another side-fuel in the 2.4.5-T case for a whopping confidence crisis in Washington...