In "Peasant in the City," from the 1960s, by Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni (1916-94), a man and cow cower wide-eyed with alarm under a toppling wall of Cubistic geometry.
There was hope that with a toppled regime might also come a truly independent press, one of the few institutions that could steer the country as it tumbled through a tumultuous post-revolutionary era.
When the screen lifts, we are in the first of Lez Brotherston's superb tones-of-gray sets — a shabby living room, with a toppled fireplace and broken walls suggestive of bomb damage.
When it lifts we are in the first of Lez Brotherston's superb tones-of-gray sets — a shabby living room, with a toppled fireplace and broken walls suggestive of bomb damage.
Several bunkers were flooded and fairways and greens were littered with debris, including a toppled tree that caused significant damage to a restroom at No. 16. "We hope to have it rebuilt and up and running by the end of the day," Payne said.
Sure enough, within two weeks of her appointment, she dealt with a building explosion, a toppled crane, an indictment of three people in a bribe case, a collapsed scaffolding and 14 structural emergencies related to a spring northeaster.
In a video from 2011, a mob of men and young boys swarm a toppled sign with portraits of President Bashar Assad, his late brother Basil and their father, Hafez.
Eventually, a Marine vehicle equipped with a crane toppled the statue.
Two days underground, picking bodies up, taking them to a morgue, finding my friend [the rapper] Jimmy O dead in his car with a building toppled on him.
