Word: etruscans
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...point is not idle, and many scholars would rush to defend it. Still, when an Etruscan tomb is emptied, a church desecrated, a Mayan temple bulldozed and a museum Vermeer yanked from its frame, it is hard to see how rich societies, let alone poor ones, can enjoy art in peace for long. In turning a blind eye to the canker that feeds on it, the art world is losing security, losing art and losing its soul...
...world frets about is how Varnedoe, whose appointment as director of painting and sculpture at MOMA has made him America's most powerful museum figure in the modern and contemporary field, will represent all its factional interests. Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign of the future...
...remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance to fess up may account for the absence from this show of some of the real lulus of American public collections, such as the fake Etruscan warriors that until some 30 years ago were star exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...
...result, the Bush budget documents are as cryptic as an Etruscan * inscription. The heart of the strategy is a $136 billion pool of popular programs like Amtrak, environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team...
...words came haltingly, in misshapen clusters. Toad's fingers lunged and jabbed and oversteered. When he paused to reread a sentence, he found that he could not decipher it. The language came out Etruscan...