Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt. "I gave that obligation to Merv," says Trump now. "He got the debt, and he got the low-income housing." These days, to satisfy a city beautification ordinance, Trump has tried to get the Trump Plaza garage, a plain block of white concrete, declared a work of art...
...gambling floors are like giant pinball machines turned inside out: clangorous, noisy places where time is measured in chips remaining, where art can be Michelangelo's David in extra large, where employees are costumed as giant diamonds or Roman vestals in mini-togas. Amid all this, the ritual extraction of money produces shrieks, groans and -- sometimes -- incongruously grim determination. On his first night as a $25,000-a-year dealer, Larry Brown saw a gambler suffer a stroke. "What really shocked me is how the players reacted, how they continued making their bets, reaching over him and stuff," he says...
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PICASSO AND BRAQUE: PIONEERING CUBISM, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The title tells all: two giants, and the origins of a style that shook -- and shaped -- the rest of the century. Through...
CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA, Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on both sides of the Bering ! Strait, assembled jointly by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Through...