Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet, dark hair, broad shoulders, tan complexion, blue eyes, strong as a bull. Let's put it this way: I look like that guy in the shirt ads, but without the eye patch...
...Sunday in September 1974, a couple of dozen Soviet painters carried their canvases into a patch of wasteland in Cheremushki, an outlying district of Moscow, and began to set them up on makeshift stands. A small crowd of onlookers gathered, and so, to one side, did a platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers...
...shrine, cave and iconostasis, suggest how far her desire for an environmental art has transcended decoration. The sculpture does not merely sit on the wall; it appropriates the whole surface, making the room itself an instrument of reverie. Spotlights play on the graphite-black surface of the sculptures, carving patch within darker patch of shadow until the inner forms of the wall are drowned in obscurity and only the faintest rustle of black under black suggests their presence...
...conference will have to patch together some kind of further compromise. Meanwhile, the budget quarrel is delaying an extension of the time during which the Government can exceed the statutory ceiling on the national debt, needed soon if the Government is to continue paying its bills. At week's end the fractious Congress voted for an extension, but only for five days...
...Joseph Cerce, 30, stares at the three gold hash marks on his left sleeve. Each represents three years in the Army, and Cerce does not plan to add a fourth. He will retire next March. Says Cerce: "The Army has changed for the worse. It's not a patch on what it used...