Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married, but unlike many designers who squire their customers to public events, he shuns big parties and nightclubs. Instead, he prefers entertaining small groups in his modern split-level Hollywood Hills house, which he has decorated in austere white with leather-tile floors and classic Mies van der Rohe and Charles Eames furniture...
...hand to host the guests, including Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham, whose museum's president backed up his good wishes with a $50,000 donation, was the Contemporary's director, Netherlands-born Jan van der Marck, 38, former director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends...
...second exhibit, Van der Marck showed 34 drawings of "proposed colossal monuments," including giant baked potatoes and pizza pies, by Claes Oldenburg, who was raised in Chicago, where his father was Swedish Consul General. Van der Marck is already talking of floating an Oldenburg on Lake Michigan, as part of Chicago's 150th birthday celebration next summer. After all, Van der Marck figures, since his job is to show what is living in the mind of the artist, what is the point of keeping it confined to a museum...
...cash, was so loaded with gilt-edged investments ($217 million worth) as to be a sound long-term venture. A new Cabinet under Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami fired a committee that was irreconcilably split over whether to salvage or liquidate the bank, named another that dickered with Kid der, Peabody. The key to the rescue deal was winning the consent of Intra's major creditors, notably that of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber al Ahmed as Sabah, whose countrymen had the largest stake ($40 million) in the bank. Kuwaitis will own some 35% of the stock to be issued...
...party elite has already accepted the existence of the leftists by lifting the previous ban on inner-party groups. But, as Rudolf Augstein, publisher of Der Spiegel, points out, the Socialists were so enervated by Brandt's domination that, other than him, they had no men competent to hold major office. Proof of this was supplied two weeks ago when Brandt delegated Klaus Schutz as the new mayor of Berlin. Schutz organized Brandt's anti-leftist battle in the 50's and followed him to the Foreign Ministry in Bonn. He seems to have been reluctant to take the Berlin...