Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day Sotheby's sale of impressionists and moderns set a one-night record -- an astonishing $42,372,000 -- and individual milestones for nine artists. Mondrian's Composition in a Square with Red Corner sold for $5.06 million, the second highest price ever paid for a 20th century painting (Yo: Picasso, a self-portrait, went for $5.83 million in 1981). Renoir's La Coiffure was gaveled down at $3.52 million; Joan Miro's Woman in the Night at $2.53 million; and Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (Festival) at $1.76 million. Sotheby's great rival, Christie's, rang up $30.6 million...
...Viking; $24.95), for example, carries the sonorous subtitle "A Journey of Discovery from Alaska to Florida -- the Cooks, the Recipes, and the Unique Flavors of Our National Cuisine." The problem is, her self-imposed "time frame" forces her to bypass the major immigrant groups of the late 19th and 20th centuries, among them Italians, Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks, long in the public domain...
...Harvard women's varsity finished 20th out of the 36 teams competing in the IC4A meet...
...began a new phase of abstraction in the early 1930s, one which would culminate 15 years later with the pure color silhouettes of his paper cutouts. Museums, up to now, have not shown us much of Matisse the Nicois. Of the gaps in our experience of any great 20th century artist, this was surely one of the biggest...
...says modern music has to be unpleasant? As the 20th century winds down, the joyous, freewheeling eclecticism that has long marked American music is flourishing more strongly than ever. Some challenging releases prove the point...