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...early '70s Morley's painting was largely about violence happening to a spuriously calm surface. In Los Angeles Yellow Pages, 1971, a jagged rip appears in a huge Los Angeles phone-directory cover, thus eerily predicting the city's real 1971 earthquake. A postcard scene of Piccadilly Circus, 1973, is incoherently violated by blurts and blobs of paint; they include a quantity of gray that has leaked from a bunch of bags hanging from the top of the canvas. Morley invited some friends to shoot arrows into them and re lease the paint, and the arrows remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Haunting Collisions of Imagery | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Even with the Lebanese government falling apart in recent weeks, Shultz continued to insist that the May 17 agreement was workable. "He was the midwife," says one of his aides, "so it was not easy for him to rip up an agreement he had helped deliver." Even now Shultz is convinced that simple political expediency led the White House to renege on an important U.S. commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging Tough Was Not Enough | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Crimson enters its toughest road rip of the year after four wins in a row and confidence blowing out its ear. " We know we're playing the best ball of the year," Greg Wildes says. "And we know it's tough to play down there, but we need this...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: In Search of...Cagers Head South | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...what do we do now? We could make existing college presidents rip their clothing and shout, "Unclean, Unclean," to warn innocent bystanders. But that doesn't solve the problem...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Stanford Who? | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Well I'm going to fucking rip that fucker down and we'll carry it all the way to the Charles...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Red on Crimson | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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