Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land was acquired by the University for institutional development." Moulton said. "Our intention is to tear the buildings down once they are vacant...
...utilities, which leaves her almost nothing for clothes and entertainment. Mrs. Larson worries constantly that her rent will go even higher. "I feel very insecure," she says. "I never know if the landlady is going to raise my rent again or tell me they're going to tear the place down to build one of those new apartment buildings. Then we'd all be homeless...
...paper event" itself is what Mallardi refers to as a "structured improvisation." As choreographer she provided the structure long strips of kraft paper which the dancers contemplate, hug, tear into balls, build with, and eventually, abandon. But the dancers-a mixed group of Harvard students and the "outside people" who have come to study with her-have to make something of the structure, leaving the "paper event" as much theirs as it is Mallardi...
...fire, her father had been killed in an accident, she herself had been in an automobile accident, and she hadn't even gone to school yet. She was a mess. I think we managed to salvage one boy. He was 85 pounds and not yet six. He would just tear around the place and knock people over, but he was a fundamentally honest person. He was starting to come around...
...school was attached to a conservatory, and the musical atmosphere was different from anything that Misha had ever known. "By the end of the year, it was difficult to tear me away. All my other activities became secondary, then disappeared. I would leave for school in the morning and not return until night...