Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting with Jackson Pollock, one can easily think of a dozen modern American artists who have not had retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again...
...Thank God somebody put together a box that sounds like a string section," he tells the receiver. "All these union musicians care about are their union dues and their pensions...
Shades of Black, at the Loeb Ex, includes three one-act plays by Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins and Dorothy Ahmad, and is showing at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are free at the box office the afternoon before each performance...
...food in the press box--the best I've had yet. They say that Princeton has class, but when they wheeled out those ham and cheese subs with just the right amount of mayo at halftime, I was all set to transfer...
...instinct was sound. "I study the big-box-office movies in the last 30 years," says De Laurentiis in an English fractured by enthusiasm. "Nearly all are family movies. I see Kong as the greatest love story ever made, a picture for everyone." The trouble was, when Dino fell in love with Kong, almost everyone he went to for financing told him he was crazy, that the only interest in Kong was purely nostalgic and that $10 million-his first, modest budget estimate-was too much to risk on that quasi-emotion...