Word: ruining
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...Sforza, duke of Milan, ended up a shapeless mound, shot to pieces by occupying French archers. His big mural commemorating a Florentine victory, the Battle of Anghiari, became a blistered wreck and was painted over. Little survives of his Last Supper in Milan. And so the melancholy catalog of ruin and loss goes...
...station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route, Jaisalmer has been in decline. And over the past two decades, the decay has accelerated. Hundreds of historic buildings have crumbled like shortbread and dozens more are rapidly deteriorating. The arrival of thousands of tourists every year has also exacerbated the ruin...
...hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living in China's cramped, anonymous cities, while the desolate black-and-white photos of artist Rong Rong's Ruin Series document the remains of demolished Beijing neighborhoods. Xu Bing's delightful Guangdong Wild Zebra Herd features four donkeys, alive if bedraggled, chewing grass outside the museum; the artist painted them to look like zebras after reading a story about inventive Chinese villagers who did the same in hopes...
...Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this summer and is being reworked for an April opening in London. The new opera is expected to include such crowd pleasers as a kick line of Ku Klux Klansmen and a diaper fetishist. One hopes that this newfound respectability won't ruin Springer's reputation...
...Vatican’s decision to accept the resignation is particularly significant, professors said, since Law had been pushing for bankruptcy proceedings in order to save the Archdiocese from the financial ruin that would result from victims’ lawsuits...