Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago last month, the boy pharaoh has enjoyed a scintillating afterlife in the vision, imagination and, it must be said, the commerce of modern man. The treasures from his Valley of the Kings resting place, shown in packed museums around the world, have inspired countless designers of art, jewelry, fashion and frippery over the decades. The current exhibition, the "Treasures of Tutankhamun," may well have been viewed by 7 million Americans by the time it concludes a threeyear, seven-city tour of the U.S. in San Francisco next September...
...with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors. That figure could have been doubled if the museum had been able to handle the crowds. Seattle's Art Museum drew 1,293,203. When the show packed up, Seattle stores ran "Goodbye, Tut" sales...
...university, or perhaps more to the point, the university in theater. The university, he writes, "remains the brightest hope not just for the preservation but also for the development of high culture in America...It enjoys a special position as the locus of youth and age, experiment and tradition, art and intellect, working process and realized results, apprenticeship and professionalism, the possibilities of the future and the heritage of the past...
...college shut down the campus snack bar, a few faculty offices, and the art gallery in response to the sit-in in the social center...
Chafin declined to comment on the investigation, saying only "It may have been stolen for resale purposes or it could have been taken for its aesthetic value by someone who really knows art...