Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totaling $482,018. They were disallowed when the IRS determined that the deed for the papers had been illegally backdated. In Humphrey's case, however, there was no question of fraud. The IRS ruled that because he had limited public access to his papers for 25 years, his gift did not qualify as a charitable deduction...
...portraits of the maestro himself, to public tours at $5.90 a pop. His share of the profits, says Lee, will help support aspiring artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff a baby-blue "gift bazaar," where electric candelabras and Liberace records can be purchased. "There are $1 million worth of goodies in this house," beamed the pianist as he pointed out a Louis XV desk. "But they will give me more pleasure if more people can see them. I'll probably live...
However, the Revolution's big gift to art was not some chimera of "radical style." It was the museum. There, as David and his colleagues foresaw, the eclectic authority of the past would become the teacher, displacing the personal authority of whatever mítre was running the academy. Thus the museum became the embodiment of free choice...
...Walter Annenberg are known for their table, and this dinner left nothing to be desired. It began with Iranian caviar (a recent gift from the Shah to the Nixons who brought it along), served with well-chilled Russian vodka; then it continued with slices of pink Chateaubriand served with a red Bordeaux, and Dom Pérignon champagne. In his toast, Annenberg expressed his appreciation to Nixon for his ambassadorial appointment. In his turn, the former President extolled the value of friendship, especially in the face of adversity, and lauded the assembled guests for their loyalty at a time when...
...their youth without risking self-parody, to kindle our nostalgia for the kind of sophisticated romantic comedy the movies used to provide routinely (and television never learned to do) without risking invidious comparison to the way things were. But it is perhaps TV's most delightfully thoughtful gift to viewers this season. ∎Richard Schickel...