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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While past directors have influenced the Fogg through their efforts as collectors. Slive's efforts will be directed more towards ensuring the well-being of what the museum already has. "His main challenge will be to refurbish the building, to expand it, to make the Fogg's fiscal structure sound," says Rosenfield. "The museum is at a crossroads in this sense...
...have donated over 90 per cent of the museum's works, make the collection seem to grow by itself, according to Rosenfield. In the Fogg's one weak area, that of modern art, Slive plans to strengthen it, while in the field of "art and anthropology" he plans to expand it, in conjunction with the Peabody Museum...
...late-blossomer. The records display the new expressive powers that the music's structural freedom allows: they also show the chaos that can result when inspiration falters and there is no strucural discipline to fall back upon. All four are drawn together by their common commitment to expand the boundaries of jazz, but all do so in highly original ways according to individual sensibilities...
...audiences to encounter that rarity in the art, reorientation. A successful movie like Amarcord or Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore depends on preconceptions of society, asking the audience to consider its extraordinary perspective. These movies are not shallow, but neither are they active challengers of prescribed notions. They expand rather than disrupt, playing off what we already believe. Antonioni hopes he can make us forget, at least for the moment...
...area is banking on its many technology-based industries to lead the way out of the recession. But the area, hardest-hit of all by the energy crisis, faces the toughest recovery problems. Because of the high cost of fuel in New England, companies are reluctant to locate or expand there. The lessening of inflation is having a smaller effect in New England, where prices, owing to high transport costs, generally remain higher than elsewhere...