Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the impression that many people form when they first see the sculpture -- that they have somehow wandered onto an unsightly construction project -- the controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc was understandable. Commissioned by the General Services Administration at a cost of more than $175,000, the unbroken 12-ft.-high wall of rust-patinaed steel stretches 120 ft. across Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, forcing thousands of pedestrians to hike around it. Since the installation of Tilted Arc in 1981, more than 7,000 office workers have signed petitions demanding the work's removal. During a series...
...wall at the bottom of the sloping spectator terrace. Some managed to clamber over the wall, dropping to the ground on the other side. Hundreds more were trapped, crushed by the weight of the crowd. Then, with a sickening crack, the concrete wall collapsed, killing some and spilling others onto the field in a murderous cascade of bodies and fractured concrete...
Despite the ever present threat of raging cyclones, poor farmers from Bangladesh's overpopulated mainland have continued streaming onto the little islands in the Ganges delta in the hope of finding cultivable land. So far, the government has been reluctant to turn back the human tide, and unable to evacuate the chars before a cyclone roars through. Government advisories, officials in Dhaka claimed last week, enabled thousands of peasants to scramble to safety before the most recent cyclone struck. Yet at least 1.2 million of those caught in the maelstrom had no idea in advance that the whirlwind...
...wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way. If they keep coming back then the Army takes over and chouses them worse. Finally the Army will manage to whip 'em down to where they can be squeezed onto some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission for the work we done. If we hadn't done it, all the bankers would still be back in Georgia, living on poke salad and turnip...
...spirit lived, as 14 months ago in St. John's, Nfld., Fonyo dipped his toe into the Atlantic and embarked on his own "journey for lives." Last week, after grinding down 4,924 miles, 17 pairs of running shoes and six artificial legs, Fonyo hobbled onto a red carpet at a Vancouver Island beach, poured a jigger of Atlantic water into the Pacific and shouted, "Yahoo, I've done it!" The run (actually he plants his artificial leg then swings his good leg in a hopping double step) has already raised nearly $10 million. At a rally early last week...