Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice, this allows paintings or sculptures to be viewed in ways no conventional museum would attempt. Currently at the Sackler, Masterworks of East Asian Painting demonstrates one such type of unique execution by displaying seven centuries of painting developments together on the same walls. "We might juxtapose objects historically related over centuries and examine the connection," explains Curator of Paintings and Sculpture lvan Gaskell. "We're interested in the application of ideas to the object, in contingency, so that objects remain alive, so that they are deployed rather than simply existing...
...world. Across the street at the Sackler lives the world's largest single collection of ancient Chinese jades as well as one of the most comprehensive Korean ceramics collections anywhere. Since the early '70s, when John Kenneth Galbraith first donated his Indian miniatures, Harvard has specialized in East Asian, Islamic and African art. Some of the strongest collections throughout Harvard's system are in Persian and Mughal Indian two-dimensionals, Japanese surimono prints and the Chinese and Korean jades and ceramics mentioned above. Much of this material also came to Harvard during the Forbes-Sachs years, including the initial Chinese...
...giant tortoises for food. Reacting to the overfishing, the government shut down the season a month early, triggering the protests last winter. But illegal harvests are continuing--and now seahorses and pipefish, valued in Asia for their purported aphrodisiac and medicinal value, are being taken too. A small Asian "test market" has also developed for Galapagos sea urchins as well as sea-lion genitalia and teeth...
...prosecution. Leeson, 28, fled Singapore for Germany last February when news of his futures trading fiasco was revealed. According to Singaporean investigators, Leeson, who was the general manager of futures trading for Britain's Barings bank in Singapore, wiped out some $1.38 billion of the bank's funds in Asian futures markets. The loss was more than the 232-year-old investment institution could cover. Leeson was charged with eleven counts of fraud and forgery. "One of the reasons for fleeing to Germany," says TIME's John Moody, "was an obvious fear of the kind of punishment he faced...
Professor West chose the latter, with reasoning as follows: It is true that Minister Farrakhan hates white people and gay people and Asian people and Jewish people and Arab people. It is true Minister Farrakhan insisted that all Black women stay home. It is true--Professor West could not have known this at the time, but my hunch is he would agree after having attended the march--that Minister Farrakhan's two-and-a-half hour rant all but ignored the purpose of the march, with its extended numerological speculations about the height of the Lincoln Memorial and the number...