Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...value of Pollock's works skyrocketed recently after the $2 million sale of Pollock's "Blue Poles" to the Australian National Museum...
...knew the precise value of the three works, but the best estimates pegged the total at $500,000. The value of a Pollock has skyrocketed in recent months after the $2 million sale of Pollock's "Blue Poles" to the Australian National Museum...
...such problems beset the judges awarding the prizes for economics and literature, which went to Harvard's Wassily Leontief, 67 (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and Australian Patrick White, 61, whose sensitive, lonely novels are set against the vast open spaces of his homeland...
...huge tapestry curtains woven at Aubusson to designs by Australian Artist John Coburn are soggy pastiches of Matisse's paper cutouts. In the foyers, no effort to mask and confuse the nobly strict curves of the roof ribs has been spared: one is met by a jumble of well-made but visually meaningless joinery, as if some gnome from the stingyback forests had gone berserk promoting the rarer Australian hardwoods...
Still, there it is, opened last week with a production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, and ready now for its ceremonial visit by Queen Elizabeth II-an Opera House that marks a watershed in Australian cultural history, if not (as was once hoped) in that of world architecture...