Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
...pretentious but useful book, Hammer documents the failure of Calley's defense to discuss meaningfully any of the other circles of guilt which surround the hamlet of My Lai 4. Defense lawyers alternately argued that everyone else had done the same thing, that artillery and bombs had done the real killing, that Calley had been following orders that he believed to be lawful, that Calley really hadn't killed anybody, that Calley had killed people but that he was not responsible for his actions. Except for a few small victories (such as getting into the record the fact that every...
...afternoon's entertainment--already an hour late due to the inability of Popsie's driver to find his way to the Lampoon Castle through the one-way streets that now surround Cambridge's famous Brattlewalk--continued with speeches from representative academics, conservative students and plain old jocks...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu, who last week formally declared his candidacy. Two weeks ago, Minh told some reporters that Thieu was at least partially responsible for the killing of the brothers. As Minh told it, Thieu, then a colonel in command of the South Vietnamese 5th Division, was to surround Saigon's cream-colored Gia Long Palace and "protect the life of President Diem" by taking him into custody. But Thieu got to the palace too late, Minh said, and the Ngos had already slipped away. Their bodies turned up the following day, bound and bullet-riddled, inside...
...hill adobe is one of the few moral ways man can build on the land, the adobe comes from the land where the home is to be, it raised from the earth and still a part of it, the color is the land beneath the juniper and pinon which surround it, low to the ground and quiet, when abandoned, returns to the earth and origin. Ceilings are long log rafters covered with planks of wood, and earth above, they are low, are warm and welcome to the hand; the walls are earth and carry her warmth and rhythm fireplaces...