Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vauxhall Gardens (circa 1784), in which portraits of such notables as Dr. Johnson, Boswell and the Prince of Wales are mingled with the faces of anonymous revelers. Other artists went farther afield. George Chinnery fled his family in 1802 and settled in India, where he turned out a stream of elegant, precise topographical studies like Figure Seated by an Indian Temple...
...morale of the demonstrators seemed high. Donations, including $500 checks from Ewart E. Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies and chairman of the Department, and from the Afro-American Society of the Business School, letters and telegrams of support, and a steady stream of supplies have been delivered to the occupiers since the Thursday dawn takeover...
...vain, conservation groups suggested less disruptive alternatives where possible, such as building levees behind stream banks or prohibiting use of flood plains through zoning. Seeking redress in court, they argued before a North Carolina federal judge that despite an SCS review of the environmental effects of its pending projects, the agency was still violating the 1969 Act. In a key decision last month, the judge agreed with them and ruled fhat the SCS should issue the required statements...
...example is Escher's Waterfall (1961). A water mill with columns that carry the mill stream above the wheel? Not quite. On close examination, the building is incredible. The water is flowing uphill. The columns and the millrace could never be built: they are contradictory. So Escher's water mill, turning in perpetual motion through a kind of dimensional warp, becomes a vivid warning that art is not reality...
...Although it was a one-way deal -no East Berliners were allowed to visit the Western sector-West Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz praised the Communist gesture. "What was written on paper now is being put into practice," he declared as about 500,000 West Berliners began to stream through the Wall. "This shows that an easing of tensions is possible, and not only in theory...