Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as "Chip," was out in front of the main gate at the Bell Helicopter plant in Hurst, Texas, grinning at the workers and shaking hands, being careful to squeeze a mite harder than the other person-an old pol's trick to ease the wear and tear on himself. "Hi, Chip," one worker nodded pleasantly. "I heard you was gonna be here." Replied Carter: "We sure do need your help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds a lot to laugh about...
...Whitehead's powerful script gives Roberts and Finney both the concentration of focus (no kids or neighbors barging in to tear them from each other's throats) and the depth of antagonism needed for tour de force performances. And Page has the good sense to refrain from superfluous footage and to let their acting say it all. (One shudders to imagine the possibilities: newsreel shots of the maturing Beatles with each jump in time, perhaps, or a montage of their interspliced faces for some misspent Bergmanesque ambiguity...
...Begins to Tear...
...plans were introduced. Said Mayor Kevin White: "We start this school year with fewer transfers, less busing and more stability." At least Boston was spared the travail of Louisville and environs, where once again anti-busers clashed with police, smashed windows, set bonfires and had to be dispersed by tear gas. In Boston, as elsewhere, one could hardly speak of peace; at best it was a truce...
...lawyers who, through 17 public hearings and three sessions of the California Supreme Court, won permission to construct the fence and defended it against suits brought by worried environmentalists, who derisively called it "a roll of toilet paper." There were bomb threats, and rigging trucks were vandalized. "If they tear it down immediately afterward, that's all right," declared the unfazed Christo. "That's all part of the function of a fence. That's process art in action, with a coastal commission and a supreme court as sculptures...