Word: andres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DINNER WITH ANDR...
...themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there are surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy and body artist from the '50s, prefigure much that would happen on the conceptual fringes...
...country's ability to sustain its good intentions toward its neighbors. Venezuela's own economic house is not totally in order. Unemployment is estimated at 12%, inflation at 15%. One reason for the economy's woes is that Herrera Campíns' predecessor, Carlos Andrés Pérez, encouraged a series of ill-advised state enterprises, such as steelmaking and air transport, that last year ran up losses estimated at $2.5 billion. Other important sectors of the economy, mainly agriculture, have been corroded by the massive inflow of oil money: once a self-sufficient...
...capita use of energy in the U.S. has dropped by more than 12% since 1978, and in West Germany it has decreased 9%. Says André Michel, an oil trader for the Swiss-based Albaco Oil Co.: "It has taken consumers a long time to respond to high prices. But things have finally begun to change. If it had happened sooner, the price of a barrel of crude today would be $15 and not more than...
...play tennis, but I don't win tournaments, so I didn't know what to do with it," said Pianist André-Michel Schub, 28, hoisting his silver trophy high over his head Bjorn Borg-style after winning the sixth Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition...