The adopted person feels torn, working out which sort of relationship will emerge with the birth parent while also facing the anxieties of existing family.
In one large gallery stain painting is rebelliously pushed off the stretched canvas in vibrantly colored and variously two-sided, sewn, beaded and torn works by Manny Farber, Alan Shields and Alvin Loving.
Mr. Tàpies is famous for what are often called his "matter paintings" — thick, heavily textured, scraped, sometimes cut or torn works made of traditional paints mixed with everyday materials including sand, ash, marble powder, paper, cloth and string, onto which he occasionally attaches found objects like pieces of wood or strips of leather.
The first is a tough new economic reality, which means those torn between work and home life often can't afford to reduce their hours: so the emphasis is on reinventing the time we have.
Forty percent of mothers feel torn between work and child rearing and are likely to quit their jobs, compared to 20%% of fathers.
Nor did tears work for our very own Ken Livingstone when, at his mayoral manifesto launch, he wept at the spectacle of "ordinary Londoners" saying how much they wanted him to be mayor – in words written by his staff.
(Tears work somewhat differently in marine mammals like dolphins and sea lions).
"I have been torn between working with Adrian Chiles and remaining at the BBC.
Staff can be torn between working with a smaller, local partner (which can mean a higher fiduciary risk) or a larger (potentially lower risk) private sector partner.
That was also the year in which he made his first papiers déchirés ("torn papers"), works of art created according to the Surrealist dictate of leaving creation to chance.
Mics in hand, the multilingual actors deliver shards of texts torn from works by German Erich Maria Remarque, Frenchman Henri Barbusse (prominently credited); also by Americans Mary Borden and Ellen Newbold La Motte, as well as German Arnold Zweig (these names tucked away in small print).
