Word: biennially
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...temple of the "interesting," the crammed pantheon of the briefly new, is the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the 1985 version of which closed on Sunday. The importance of the biennial lies in the absence of other exhibitions that do the same job. It is a salon, though a very biased one (it scants realist painting, for instance, in favor of more nominally "advanced" styles), and as such it is the one regular national survey of American art held by a major U.S. museum. It pretends to be plain reportage...
Despite a smattering of mature and serious work, this year's biennial was generally agreed to be the worst in living memory. The six curators seemed to have their neural nets patched directly into Manhattan's East Village, that journalists' playpen of urban gentrification, which in the '80s is replacing SoHo as the city's art-based boomtown, its Montmartre of the Neo. There is a small deposit of serious East Village art, but none was represented at the Whitney...
...bureaucracy, replacing 32 of the 157 regional party secretaries, often with younger men. That was only a small tremor in a shift that is still moving through the bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...
...most immediate effect on UNESCO will be financial: the U.S. contributes 25% of the group's $374 million biennial program budget. That will leave the Soviet Union, which contributes 12% of the budget, as the group's largest backer. Said Ambassador Gerard: "Since some of UNESCO'S most objectionable programs resemble the Soviets' policies, let them pay for them...
...Spain in 1917 and refurbished in England 13 years ago, thew 117-ft. Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua, had a complement...