Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tear Off the Binding. Anhalt and his wife split up after finishing The Pride and the Passion. But on his own, the talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...than through theories toward the brain," he said. "Art and life itself seem to me like a boat upon the waters. To whom is it given, this gift of guiding this boat and how to sail it? I see the life of everyday peoples and things as through a tear. I try to offer them, as I can, a plastic reflection." Mixing his metaphors as brightly as he does his oils, Chagall concluded that "the role of the artist is tragic today because, while the world's horizons have been extended, the human heart is as small as ever...
...TIME'S cover story on computers [April 2] helped tear away the shroud of fear that envelops the greatest tool our society has ever produced. Computers are not spectres of doom; they are friends...
...wall: STOP AND THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK. (Another one says: CHOOSE A DATE WHO WOULD MAKE A GOOD MATE.) Children drink from a canister containing rainwater drained off the schoolhouse roof. Prominent on a bookshelf near the door is a roll of toilet tissue, from which the children unselfconsciously tear off a length as they leave for one of the two privies out back under a couple of evergreens...
...Damned Unpleasant." The furor was created not by "secret gases" but by three common riot-control gases that the U.S. has been supplying to South Vietnamese forces since 1962: CN (chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...