The wilting cut-flower berms flank the brick and sandbag barricades, splashing the landscape of ruin with incongruous color.
"America's greatest Marxist literary critic, Frederic Jameson (b. 1934), is still very much in harness (and throwing bricks from behind his barricade) at Duke.
At the Alliance Church, residents parked an oversized flatbed truck at one end of the street leading to the church and posted guards next to a barricade of bricks, logs and cardboard barrels at the other.
In the film's best sequence, he stomps and kicks against the brick walls and metal barricades that form the boundaries of his childhood, and Mr. Daldry's camera, moving like Billy to the Beat of Jam's "Town Called Malice," captures both his imprisonment and his furious, temporary freedom.
On Wednesday, I arrived at three o'clock, and instantly heard incessant chatter about what had happened the previous day: about six hours of trouble involving between 50 and 100 young people, who smashed windows with bricks, and tried to barricade High Street using a van and a Range Rover, which were set on fire.
The outskirts of the camp were being fortified with hasty barricades of brick, sandbags and even concrete in anticipation of the coming showdown with the military.
On Monday morning, they were building low walls, using dug-up paving stones as bricks and as barricades.
All entrances to the sit-in at Nahda Square are fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags.
In September, when a group of Catholics in a rural town near Rome heard that the local monastery would be closed and the monk would be sent away, they kept him there for several days by bricking up and barricading the entrances.
