Word: windows
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...terrorism was the worst yet in a furious new round of violence between Jews and Arabs on the West Bank. After Arab youths stoned Israeli vehicles last month, Jewish militants from the settlement of Beit El outside Ramallah went on a window-smashing rampage through Arab towns, attacking cars and houses with stones and steel hammers. Tensions were inflamed further last week when Israeli military officers shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in a schoolyard scuffle in the West Bank village of Anabta. After the funeral, angry villagers paraded through the streets waving Palestinian flags, chanting anti-Israeli...
...darkened. The tongue-in-cheekiness of the lovely little English films (notably The 39 Steps in 1935 and The Lady Vanishes in 1938) gradually became more subdued, replaced first by the broody romanticism of movies such as Rebecca (1940) and Notorious (1946), then by the assured slickness of Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). It was in the middle of that last group that, in two superb, underrated films, The Wrong Man (1957) and Vertigo (1958), he directly, quite humorlessly, confronted his belief that injustice will be done and that nothing is what...
...summer school and has the unenviable task of getting Mary and other Peter Frampton fans to pay a little attention to Jane Austen. Cynthia's boyfriend, Peter Spangle, is in Spain dribbling away the last of a small inheritance. He left before reversing the fan in the kitchen window; the hot air blows...
...hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos, and cylinders of gasoline mounted on flatcars--all of this presented with illimitable, understated bitterness...
...organizing such details into pictures, a number of the photographers have exploited their medium's access to ambiguity, the unguided camera's tendency to describe things without explaining them. (The most bedeviling example features a car's empty interior, a glimmer of light edging the trim beneath the window, through which we see a tangle of foliage and a woman whose face is cut off by the car top, and whose braceletted hands are removing her underpants.) And nearly all the pictures display a reluctance (shared by most contemporary painters) to deal directly with, or even to acknowledge, the complexities...