Word: christiansen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also, in excelsis, a show about connoisseurship, not block- busting. It was scrupulously and intelligently put together by Keith Christiansen, curator of the museum's department of European paintings. His aim, as far as possible, was to concentrate on narrative painting -- stories from the Bible, mainly -- instead of the static images of the Madonna in which Sienese painting abounds. Because these narratives are usually found in the small scenes around compound altarpieces, they have been scattered from Budapest to Melbourne in what museums euphemistically call the "dispersal" -- the dismemberment by thieves and dealers -- of big church paintings...
...catalog essays by Christiansen and Carl Brandon Strehlke are a fine guide to the social background and doctrinal meaning of these religious comic strips. Packed with meaning, reasonable in size, this is the kind of show that the Met used to do superbly -- and now does not do often enough...
Also pacing the attack for the Bulldogs are junior center Matti Christiansen (27.43--70) and senior left wing Tom Herzig...
...beginning of the end for the protest came in December during a chance meeting between Niels Christiansen, Nestlé's director of research, and Douglas Johnson, head of the principal boycott group, on a Philadelphia-New York train. They concluded that their differences were slight. In the final agreement, Nestlé promised to promote breast feeding as superior to formula and to warn of the hazards of misuse on graphic labels that can be understood by people who cannot read...
...dismay of most participants, during the hypothetical crisis the U.S. Energy Department did not move to control supplies or limit the price of oil. As a result, U.S. oil prices zoomed to a theoretical $98 per bbl., with gasoline priced at $2.83 per gal. As Wisconsin Energy Administrator Roy Christiansen recalls: "The Feds didn't seem to be concerned, or want to deal with it." During the game, Wisconsin energy officials telexed Washington: "We hope it will not take the economic collapse of one of these cities . . . before the Administration realizes that its [noninterventionist] policies have failed and must...