Word: vandalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saddest of all, perhaps, an unidentified vandal slipped into the Met's European-paintings gallery and scratched a small H into the corners of ten paintings (none was seriously damaged). "An act by a very sick individual," said Hoving. He was hardly fazed, however, by the complaints about the show. "From time to time, a great institution must do something highly experimental," he observed. "It is necessary to keep alive and thinking...
Surrounded by prospering suburban developments, the partly completed subdivision 18 miles from downtown Los Angeles had sunk into dreary ruin. Some 275 families lived in Bellehurst, but among their luxurious (up to $55,000) ranch homes stood the vandal-and weather-ravaged remains of another 450 abandoned houses, many only half-built. During eight years of neglect, streets caved in; tumbleweed rolled across once well-kept lawns and against the legs of curious sightseers. Golfers at Bellehurst's Los Coyotes Country Club were forced to climb over rotting piles of lumber and weed-cracked concrete slabs when they tracked...
McLaughlin said that Cambridge is spending $190,000 for 3000 new "vandal-resistant" parking meters. About 1800 of the meters have been installed...
...come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid is immortal, a creature of foam and sky. If tears were to be shed, they should be for the vandal-or, as Hans Andersen put it, for the "naughty child. And each tear adds a day to the time of our trial...