Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resumed until the Iran Ajr was disabled, its stern on fire. Six hours later in the light of dawn the SEALs from the Guadalcanal scrambled up the hull of the crippled ship. They found no one alive. Three bodies had been left behind by the fleeing crewmen amid a scene of destruction caused by the chopper assaults. Windows were shattered and huge gouges pocked the hull and cabin. Offices and other rooms had been ransacked in a hasty effort by the Iranians to destroy papers...
...circle it cannot have looked very sophisticated. For all his formal solidity, moreover, the perimeter of Zurbaran's space often seems as thin as tissue, ready to collapse under the pressure of revelation -- and sometimes it literally does, as when the back wall of the otherwise "normal" domestic scene of The Virgin and Christ in the House of Nazareth dissolves in clouds of fulgid light while the young Jesus, foreseeing his Passion, pricks his finger on a thorn...
...little chance to respond to -- or sort out -- their jabbering. None of the correspondents would yield to the other, even though it was a live broadcast. Print reporters, no saints themselves, shook their heads in despair. Secretary of State George Shultz laughed in thinly veiled disgust. Reagan let the scene play out to his advantage. ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, standing by in New York City, was appalled by the "babble," and said so over...
...American Scene...
...unless the bar scene improves in Harvard Square, many students will have to settle for less--like private parties or an Orangina at Au Bon Pain...