Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides explained, would draw antibusing sentiment off the street and into the courtroom. At the same time, they speculated, it might lead to a decision not to bus students between schools in South Boston and predominantly black Roxbury, but to bus black and white students to a neutral site between the two neighborhoods...
...their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning the art works into...
...newspapers across the world. Soviet authorities indeed seemed to react to the unfavorable publicity. Though there had been no official word from the government, at week's end one of the artists told foreign newsmen that permission had been granted to hold another exhibit at a different site this week...
...city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site!" Half the crowd filtered out during the 2½-hour oration, but for many of those who stayed, there was little doubt that the Messiah is Moon himself...
...Robot" (pronounced ru-bow) Davenport tells the story of the discovery of the Lascaux cave in southern France, the site of some of the earliest prehistoric paintings. According to this version a dog named Robot chasing a rabbit actually discovered the cave. Henri Breuil, a French Jesuit anthropologist provides Davenport with a voice to describe the caves as brains for the earth. Breuil talks about his discoveries in China, Africa, the Altamira caves in Spain where Picasso studied the ancient bull drawings for the bull he painted in "Geurnica." Everything becomes interconnected in Davenport's stories; history isn't simply...