Word: windows
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Pentagon, Beckwith recalled, his first thought was "My God, I'm gonna fail." He ordered his men into the C-130s to take off, then rushed to gather up all classified papers and gear. He was aboard a C-130 when he looked out of a window. He recalled: "A 130 all of a sudden exploded. It was one hell of a fire. On that 130 were 39 of my people " Beckwith said there was no way to get the bodies out of the fire "unless you wanted to burn up everybody who's going in there." Said...
...this documentation of a series of conversations at a street corner store between working class Blacks lacks cohesiveness. The viewer believes what he is seeing is important but is frustrated by what seems to be a lack of purpose. It is as if he is looking through a window at an unknown world which he realizes is important and real--but is unsure why he is looking at it. After ten minutes of this hour-long black-and-white film, the disjointedness becomes tedious...
Another fraternity, Delta Tau, which was placed on probation at the same time as Phi Delta Beta, remains on probation. Delta Tau members allegedly threw a sofa out of an upstairs window, set it on fire and then urinated...
...early, because it was an important ceremony of his day to shave the important and self-important men of the town, whose gold-lettered mugs stood splendidly on the shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began spiraling their way to infinity (a kid could watch those stripes coming down...
...Capitalism created the affluent society, but the more prosperity the public enjoyed, the more it wanted. If hard work, talent and savings no longer provided the affluence, the public demanded it from the government. The family that once was "satisfied" with only two cars looked around the open-window culture provided by instant communications and saw many other people with two cars and a boat. Then the family not only expected but began demanding its "right" to everything ?and felt somehow cheated when galloping prices frustrated its desires...