Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault the viewer with the very "thingness" of the object. As shadows played across the empty surfaces, gallerygoers were invited to ponder the mysteries of life and the ultimate beauties...
...guns below the North Viet Nam border-as the Israelis did with the Syrian artillery atop the Golan Heights. U.S. military doctrine holds that a force assumes a defensive position only when it is not strong enough to take the offensive, wants to use its main strength for an assault elsewhere, or is stalling for time. None of these arguments seems to apply to Con Thien. Still, a civilian specialist notes that the "setpiece assault" is causing the North "a tremendous effort, tying up a tremendous amount of manpower and transport at terrible cost." Why, then, do the Communists concentrate...
...White House visitor during the war described President Madison as looking "miserably shattered and woebegone; his mind is full of the New England sedition." With the British assault on Washington, Madison and his wife were forced to flee the burning capital-an ignominious departure that his political enemies looked upon as the just deserts of his political folly...
...clustered about the 200-foot high struts of the Old Grand-Dad billboard that peers down into Fenway Park. On a nearby apartment building five button-down pioneers looked out from the highest outcropping of stone, twenty-three stories above the ground. The Red Sox had inspired Bostonians to assault modern architecture and advertising--which was more than Louise Day Hicks would ever...
...leading U.S. specialist on privacy. His writings on the subject have been cited by the Supreme Court and used as a basis for legislation. In his new book published by Atheneum, Westin insists that the right to privacy must nolonger be taken for granted. The mounting psychological and electronic assault on private lives poses a threat that cannot be exaggerated, he points out, and "we have only a few years of lead time before the problem will outgrow our capacity to apply controls...