Word: biennial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loving forces on earth are looking at Prague in anticipation," the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda reported with due solemnity. If they were, all that they saw was perfunctory television footage when leaders from the seven Warsaw Pact nations converged on Czechoslovakia's capital last week for their biennial summit. The main attraction was the tall, stooped figure who stepped off a Soviet airplane at Prague's rain-soaked Ruzyne Airport. Yuri Andropov was making his first trip abroad since he became party chief last November. As it turned out, his foreign debut did not quite measure...
...innumerable judges and local officials. All told, I had to make at least 50 elective decisions, of which I was intelligently informed on no more than 30. This may be blasphemy, but the political process is woefully underfinanced; $300 million is not even $1.50 per person spent on a biennial national election. Let's not confuse the total amount spent on the campaign with the quality of information needed to educate the public...
Flattery Will Get You Nowhere Dept.: Dean Fox, speaking to a biennial admissions conference last week, noted that Harvard hasn't really changed that much over the years--'The Crimson still puts out the same miserably misleading newspaper every...
...tradition. at long last, became coeducational Saturday at the 28th biennial Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge track meet in New Haven, as combined women's teams met alongside their male counterparts for the first time in the history of the event...
...will they? The 1981 Whitney Biennial has now arrived, along with a whole season of roundups, "direction" shows and the like. East of the Appalachians, two other major ones are running: in New York, the Guggenheim's "19 Artists-Emergent Americans," and in Washington, the Hirshhorn Museum's "Directions 1981." Among them, these three sample the work of some 150 painters, sculptors, land artists, photographers, video and film makers. Some of the artists, like Richard Diebenkora, Harry Callahan or Ellsworth Kelly, are very well known and represented by first-class work. Others, like Willem de Kooning, are equally...