Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explained. Three months ago, they occupied the studios at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture, began demanding a boycott of the Biennale on the grounds that it was a "capitalist" institution. Early this month, demonstrators in Milan occupied the Triennale building, housing a 13-nation exhibit of architecture and design. Though they were evicted by police, the event apparently unnerved the Venice Biennale's steering committee so much that it "postponed" the opening of two major historical exhibits...
...When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however...
...crusty Missourian allowed that the 1930 painting reflected a nation entranced but not yet enslaved by technology. "Look at that train!" he said proudly, pointing out a black smoke-belching locomotive. "The machines of that day really had something for an artist. They weren't afraid to exhibit their power. Today's machines enclose it, cover it up. No wonder there's all this rebellion when no one can feel comfortable in this culture...
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity. For all their seeming frivolity, these lines exhibit a directness that has been increasingly admired ever since the mid-'50s when Allen Ginsberg and the beats accelerated the popularity of the simple, charged statement...