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- PEOPLE, Page 67Ouch!
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- It was a rough week for Michelangelo's David. First a
- deranged man struck the marble masterpiece with a hammer and
- broke off part of a toe on the David's left foot. Museum
- officials set up a rope barrier that now keeps visitors 10 yds.
- away from the statue. Then an Oregon junior high school
- prevented its students from watching a report on the attack that
- was broadcast on Channel One, a news program for youngsters. A
- school official cited concern over its "full front view of the
- sculpture." Now if only the assailant had knocked off a
- different part of the David's anatomy . . .
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