Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical" gestures in these dying years of the avant-garde have emerged from Dada or surrealist precedents. The swarm of prototypes is so thick that when a Los Angeles body artist, a few years ago, created an "event" by shooting a pistol at a jet aircraft passing over Venice Beach, not even that lonely gesture of narcissistic aggression could be called original. Had not André Breton, the pope of surrealism, announced 50 years ago that the ultimate surrealist acte gratuit would be to fire a revolver at random into a crowd on the street...
...glide in the air-space around the North Truro base anymore, at least not without the knowledge that they may be fried like a leg of chicken, or poisoned by potentially fatal doses of microwave radiation. But for a few years, the happy-go-lucky vacationers and beach-combers around North Truro swam, flew, and enjoyed their summers unaware of the fact that intense beams of microwave radiation were travelling through their bodies, much the same way more concentrated microwave frequencies are projected through the food inside brand new microwave ovens...much the same way every American gets zapped with...
George F. Platts Ormond Beach...
...Sinai to Egypt, the settlers intend to try by court action to hold the government to a 1971 promise to keep the settlements under Israeli control. But most of the residents would leave if the Egyptians returned. Says Carol Rosenblatt, a 36-year-old mother of three from Miami Beach whose thatch-roofed restaurant is a local gathering place: "I brought my kids here to live in Israel." However, a few are uncertain. Says Belgian-born Dov Segal, 37, who three months ago opened Yamit's first supermarket: "I don't quite know what Egyptian sovereignty would mean...
Many of those, of course, were caused by gale-force winds and snow and ice storms. From the Canadian border to Virginia, the East Coast was battered by rain, sleet, snow and exceptionally high seas. New York City officials reported that 25% of Rockaway Beach was swept away by the pounding surf, while in Maine a combination of heavy rains and brutal winds wiped out coastal bridges and flooded shoreline cottages. Ohio Governor James Rhodes declared a snow emergency and called out 150 National Guardsmen to help Cleveland dig out from under massive drifts that had smothered the city...