Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a well-established private market for them among discreet collectors, including many senior officials in the Foreign Ministry, scientific institutes and universities. Many of the painters would like to make that market public. Last week 20 Moscow artists tried to bring abstract art out of the ideological closet by mounting an open-air exhibit in Moscow's Smenovskoye suburb. The result was a violent confrontation between art and politics in which art literally took a beating...
...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...bile. It is a troubling, idiosyncratic and finally unsuccessful film-troubling not for the feelings of horror it intermittently tries to conjure up but for the impression it gives of being a dead end. It is like a private bit of self-mockery, a sort of ritual of closet masochism that invites, even challenges, everyone to think the worst...
...1940s: Gang Busters and Fibber McGee and Molly. In the best Gang Busters fashion, he told cheering Congressmen that he considered inflation "public enemy No. 1" and pledged a resolute fight against it. Yet what he disclosed of his arsenal of weaponry for the battle seemed a Fibber McGee closet crowded with familiar ideas that have been tried, or at least noisily advocated, before...
...Currier House, one-room singles were converted to "economy doubles" complete with a bunk bed, two desks, a bureau and a small closet. One student said she had sent half her clothes home because of the insufficient space...