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...believe your article on touring exhibits of Maya art [ART, July 15] gives the mistaken impression that the objects dredged out of the sacred well at Chichén Itzá were resurrected from basement obscurity at the Peabody Museum. The Peabody Museum is a research and teaching institution whose major priority has never been public exhibition. However, the collections from the sacred well have had significant exposure over the past 50 years. Our museum has developed a nationwide collection-sharing program, pioneered by Frances Silverman and Lea McChesney, to make the rich resources of the Peabody available to others. Karl Lamberg...
...told, not a bad year's work for Robinson, TransAfrica and its spin-off Free South Africa Movement. Working out of a basement office in southeast Washington, Robinson has evolved into a black leader to be reckoned with. South African spokesmen predictably deny his effectiveness. Says Embassy Press Attaché Pieter Swanepoel: "The activities have had no impact on government decision-making policy. How could they, when they are taking place so far away from where those policies are formed?" But U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted for sanctions against apartheid enthusiastically acknowledge that Robinson's cool, calm competence helped rally...
Last Thursday night at 9 p.m., an artistic crowd once again gathered in the Quincy lobby area, before descending into the depths of the basement, where all would perform in the Quincy Cage show...
...Seinfeld†and the birth of “Survivor,†the turn of the millennium became a turn of the screw for television comedy. An influx of reality shows and big-budget action dramas sent traditional, punchline-driven programs straight into the Nielsen basement. Last year saw the cast of “Friends†drink their final cup of Central Perk?...
...chamber. The initiations are reported to be spectacular in the extreme, one ordeal through which the candidates are put being a brand on the left hip with the initials ‘M.F.’†The headquarters of the society were rumored to be in basement quarters along Mass...