Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donovan was arrested by Attleboro Police inAttleboro, Mass., a town approximately eight milesfrom Providence, where the university is located...
...need a group of people, you need an organized thing, especially when you first come out," says Franklin, adding that she came out while still in high school in a small town in Florida, where she says she felt very alone...
Only a week earlier the Libyans had managed to reverse a string of Chadian victories by retaking a key oasis town near the border. Angered by the setback at Maaten es Sarra, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi last week ordered a retaliatory air strike on N'Djamena. But as two Soviet-built Tupolev-22 bombers approached the capital, French troops fired a U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missile. One of the jets exploded in a green phosphorescent fireball, and the other fled toward Libya. Two other Tupolevs later struck the town of Abeche, some 400 miles to the east, killing two civilians...
...relaxed as he toured four of West Germany's eleven states. He softened his rhetoric, at one point predicting that the border between East and West Germany will one day "no longer divide us but unite us." The most touching moment came when Honecker arrived in Wiebelskirchen, the Saarland town where he grew up. After visiting the graves of his parents, Honecker seemed close to tears as he greeted acquaintances he had not seen in 40 years...
Ando's buildings are precise and almost ostentatiously austere. He is seeking purity and purification. His town houses in Tokyo and Osaka are jewel- box bunkers, the concrete facades rigorously designed compositions of door, windows, fabrication scars and joints. The Protestant chapel (1985) on the top of Mount Rokko, outside Kobe, was the perfect Ando commission. "The process of preparing ourselves for the spirituality of religion takes time," he says, and so the entrance to the chapel is a colonnaded tunnel. The chapel itself is a deep, 24-ft. by 24-ft. concrete box, with one side an expanse...