Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXCEPT for the unmistakably modern odor of tear gas and burning rubber, the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria could have passed for one of the fortified city-states that made up Italy before the nation was unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that...
...camera pans from the piano to some violins lying on a table to old framed photographs of the family (Robert, his violinist brother, his tortured pianist sister, and his fiery eyed father) to somber portraits of 19th-century composers to Katherine's face. Her eyes seem about to tear. The piece is over. She does not move. She has been reached, and there is nothing she can say. It is a moment of passionate life-made all the more passionate by the aura of death that characterizes everything else in the film. But even so, the moment is brief...
...Fifteen years ago I suggested that they tear up all the trees in Harvard Yard, in all the yards at Harvard, and turn this land into parking lots," Vellucci said...
...Quebec separatist terrorists have long been suspected of robbing Montreal banks in order to support their movement. Some South American revolutionaries have tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics. Fire-bombing banks and other capitalist institutions to tear down the Establishment is one thing; robbing them to finance the cause is something else again. At the very least, the Brighton job seems to have been the work of a strange alliance of underworld and radical academe...
...three demands have not been met. America is still on its death trip. So far the strike has been a failure, but the strike is not over. We in Cambridge can't stop the war or free Bobby Seale or even tear down the wall around Harvard this winter. But unless all our righteous indignation last Spring was a sham, we must tear down the little walls between people that we can take care of now. And someday, all those big walls will come down...