Word: arc
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Frank Caprio concluded his tenure as co-captain by knocking in all three of the Harvard runs. Co-Captain Frank Morelli opened the Harvard sixth with a double, and then crossed the plate under the arc of Caprio's home run. In the seventh inning, Caprio's ground out brought in Marcel Durand to complete the Crimson scoring...
...director of the right-wing United Christian Action, as "designed to promote Marxist doctrine." But in Smith's view it was designed to promote understanding. The visitors saw a township where many of Pretoria's black workers reside in tiny four-room houses under the nighttime glare of powerful arc lights. "It gives the impression that someone is watching them day and night," said Louis Fourie, a white participant. The visitors shared their hosts' meals of cornmeal porridge and tripe. A Pretoria man shared a bed with a young black man who had once been jailed under the security laws...
Twelve feet high and 120 ft. long, Richard Serra's Tilted Arc stretches like a rampart across the plaza of a federal office building in New York City. It seems only fitting that, as the centerpiece in a drawn-out battle over artists' rights, the steel wall sculpture even looks like a barricade. In % 1985, after workers in the area complained that it inhibited use of the site, the U.S. General Services Administration, which had commissioned the $175,000 piece, recommended its removal. That galvanized the art world and provoked Serra to fight in federal court against any attempt...
...federal policy that one-half of 1% of the construction budget for Government buildings must go for the purchase of art. At a time when the aims of modernism and the tastes of a broad public are not always in accord, some of that art, like Tilted Arc, has met with hostility or indifference. One federal judge in Baltimore even organized his judicial colleagues in a bid to block a George Sugarman sculpture planned for the plaza of the courthouse where he worked, insisting that the piece could be a launching pad for terrorist attacks...
...Because one of his murals was destroyed during the remodeling of a building, Painter Tom Van Sant has filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the bank that commissioned the work, the building's new owners and the present tenant, AT&T. Meanwhile, its future still in the balance, Tilted Arc remains in lower Manhattan after seven years, more than ever the symbol of a divisiveness that the artist could not have imagined during its creation...