Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th Century-Fox settled out of court. The late actor Peter Lawford, a Sinatra "Rat Pack" member who had married into the Kennedy family, recalled that "one time at a party in Palm Springs he got so mad at some poor girl that he slammed her through a plate glass window. There was shattered glass and blood all over the place and the girl's arm was nearly severed . . . Frank paid her off later and the whole thing was hushed up, of course...
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY...
...With the exception of Furnituremaker James Schriber, creator of the austere maple reception desk, craftsmen were not invited to contribute because, officials felt, their ornamentation might detract from the objects on view. The very presence of the museum, however, adds fuel to a long- standing argument. Its large plate-glass windows offer a tantalizing glimpse of the Museum of Modern Art's new west wing across the street. What is craft and what is art, the view asks, and what belongs in which museum...
...proved innocent." In Zimbabwe, thousands of youths stormed through downtown Harare, attacking whites on the streets, smashing windows and besieging South African, Malawian and U.S. offices. The worst damage was at the South African Airways ticket center, whose staff fled as the mob surged through a broken plate-glass window, smashed furniture and computer terminals, then set the building afire. Another group stoned the U.S. embassy and offices of the Malawi high commission. Malawi is the only black African state that has full diplomatic relations with Pretoria...
...where they were to board buses for the trip back to the barracks. At about 8:15 p.m., two assailants quietly got out of a car and, from a ramp overlooking the parking lot, hurled two hand grenades down on the soldiers and their families. Amid screams and shattering glass, the 46-year- old father of one soldier was killed, and 69 were injured. Five Palestinian organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, including P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah...