Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like it or not, by 1965 Manhattan was the center of Western contemporary art in terms of collecting power, museum clout, promotional and dealing skills and, not least, the amount of talent stacked up in it. The old, genteel American suspicion of the new had vanished. The circuit with the worship of newness in the larger culture had closed. The first beneficiary of this situation was Pop Art, the first wholly accessible style of international Modernism--an art about consumption that sat up and begged to be consumed. Its epitome was Roy Lichtenstein, who emerged in the '60s with...
...most lucrative drug territory in Chicago. In 1995 federal prosecutors indicted Hoover and 38 members of the gang, which is estimated to have some 30,000 members and annual revenues of $100 million a year. In recent years the G.D.s have made audacious bids for social legitimacy and political clout, both of which have expanded their influence to Chicago churches, schools and community institutions up through City Hall and even into the White House...
...third step is to gain the support of Faculty members. Faculty members have much more clout in this University than students and if Faculty members could be convinced to fight for an increased commitment to ethnic studies, they would be much more likely to produce results. But even more importantly, it is the Faculty that must vote to approve an ethnic studies department or the recommendations of the Ethnic Studies Committee. Without support from the Faculty, Harvard will never increase its commitment to ethnic studies...
Since last year, OPRAH WINFREY, the greatest force in television, has practically saved the alphabet. It's simple. Oprah selects a title for the book-discussion club she launched on her show last fall. Then everyone in America buys it. This gives her the market clout of a Pentagon procurement officer. Architect FRANK GEHRY saw a long struggle culminate in a huge achievement. His $100 million Guggenheim Museum is scheduled to open later this year in Bilbao, Spain...
Harvard's last report on shareholder responsibility showed that the CCSR was less likely to endorse a use of Harvard's clout against companies accused of human-rights violations than was the CSHR, which contains students, professors and administrators...