Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University construction officials have begun investigating why an underground water pipe near the Kennedy School of Government burst last Wednesday evening, flooding the K-School's basement and causing a partial blackout at several University buildings...
...pipes may have burst because of vibrations from jackhammers working on the adjacent new K-School wing, because the original pipe design was faulty, or because the pipe was inadequately fastened to the Kennedy St. water main, Robert Saltonstall Jr. Associate Vice President of Operations, said yesterday...
...executioner will pull this lever four times. Each time 2,000 volts will course through your body, making your eyeballs first bulge, then burst, and then broiling your brains...
...back; but then, the rumors that he had gone away were greatly exaggerated. It is almost 30 years since his "combine" paintings-rebus-like assemblies of every imaginable waste object, from beach tar to stuffed chickens, from electric fans to auto tires, slathered in abstract expressionist paint drips-burst upon the American art world. Nearly two decades, a lifetime for some artists, have elapsed since his first prize at the Venice Biennale (back when the Biennale mattered) heralded the "imperial" entry of American art into Europe. The unwanted reward of a career like Rauschenberg's is premature old-masterhood...
...having the demoralization and depravity of the external world converge with the stagnant heat and aridity of the South. The brutal backdrop of the heat-filled environment sets off the characters' sweaty breathlessness as if the storm that hasn't come for 20 years was about to burst. And the film drowns out any potential for platitudes and mundaneness with the director's ingenious presentation of the characters in their orange-crush, James Dean-filled existences...