Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identify as an effigy of Ny-user-ra. Checking archives for other monuments of the obscure King, he turned up a reference to the lower half of the broken Cairo statue, which had its left arm hanging by its side but no trace of a right arm. The Rochester bust, he remembered, was close in style to the statue of Ny-user-ra in Beirut, and it had its right arm raised gripping a mace...
...statue of Ny-user-ra in Cairo had no arm on its right hip, the arm must have been raised. That described the Rochester fragment." At Bothmer's request, Cairo made a plaster cast of its piece and shipped it to New York. When Bothmer placed the Rochester bust on Ny-user-ra's legs, it fitted exactly. The completed statue is now on display at the Brooklyn Museum -and the Pharaoh looks a lot more pharaonic in one piece than...
Almost a week later, the building occupation ended of its own accord-before the anticipated bust could take place. About 65 singing, chanting women left 888 Memorial Drive at 2:30 p.m. Monday, March...
...Bust rumors had begun circulating from various sources around noon, although University officials later denied that any police action had been planned. "I know there was nothing going to happen today," Robert Tonis, Chief of University Police, said that night...
...women in the building, however-expecting a bust by MDC police at 2:30 p.m.-voted after a one-and-a-half hour meeting to leave the building as a group. They marched out the door in pairs, with faces painted and banners waving, and headed down Putnam Ave. toward the Square, where they were joined by 100 more chanting women...