Word: arce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peninsula, the land shows countless scars-spots that look as if a giant rake had swept over them, long parallel lines of deep craters walking across the plains and over the mountains. The scars are the result of tons of explosives rained down in an "Arc Light" mission, a B-52 attack...
...ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches in a wide arc around the city, including more than 60 rockets cleverly hidden and ready to be fired on the capital...
...adaptation of Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Moliere's George Dandin. Musketeers is a nightlong spoof of the romantic spirit. The production presents Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan as meddlesome buffoons, a quartet of Gallic Ritz Brothers. In one sequence, neon-lit ropes arc the stage like tracer bullets while the cast ruefully announces that it has lost the threads of the plot...
...born, Brooklyn-raised painter has been enamored of abstraction ever since his G.I. bill studies in Paris. When he first attracted national attention in 1961 by winning an award at Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary...
Shunning Balkan influence, generations of Rumanian writers, including Eugène lonesco, looked toward Paris for inspiration. Bucharest itself was planned in arrondissements like Paris, with wide, tree-lined boulevards, street cafes and a replica of the Arc de Triomphe. The Rumanian language is peppered with French words...