Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through Tuesday night, the Vietnamese crowd grew uglier; hundreds tried to scale the ten-foot wall, despite the barbed wire strung atop it. Marines had to use tear gas and rifle butts to hold back the surging mob. Some screamed, some pleaded to be taken along. Floor by floor, the Marines withdrew toward the roof of the embassy with looters right behind them. Abandoned offices were transformed into junkyards of smashed typewriters and ransacked file cabinets. Even the bronze plaque with the names of the five American servicemen who died in the embassy during the 1968 Tet offensive was torn...
...four-funnelers as the M.V. Picasso. The chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder with which he had been stripping an American dreadnought, the U.S.S. David Smith; he wipes away one gruff tear of pride on an oily rag, then jerks the levers...
...locals are no more pleased with Harvard's presence than they would be with any other neighbor that uses up more tax money than it provides, seeks to buy up and tear down the house next door, or tries to impose a memorial on them that would flood backyards with traffic from all directions. They aren't overjoyed by it, but Cambridge residents do realize that Harvard may have some interests that will always run counter to community objectives. The most visible neighborhood leaders have always recognized this problem, and on numerous occasions have tried to go through the University...
...Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow on the floor, is an elegy for George Dyer, who committed suicide in a Paris hotel room...
Even before it opened in 1962, the late conductor George Szell pronounced Philharmonic Hall, the first building in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, a disaster. "Tear it down and start over!" he cried. But that was unthinkable. The house had everything money ($19.7 million) could buy. It was an austere, stately structure of travertine and glass. There were comfortable plush chairs and, most significant musically, 106 panels suspended from the ceiling to diffuse sound waves for maximum - it was hoped - acoustical excellence. They did not do the job. The sound was dry, weak in bass, lacking in focus...