Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bosom. If you look closely, you can just see the Burens in the MOMA show: four bland panels of black-and-white stripes, cut to the size of the museum windows and pasted up. What Buren's work really seems to be about is words: vacuous configurations gift-wrapped in fighting language, revealing the curiously transparent game of certification by which art posturers now proclaim their avant-gardeness. These days, the only way to become an accredited foe of museum culture is to be in a museum show-which means, in turn, that the Museum of Modern...
...odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson's addled state...
...gift was a certain limited figure and beyond that the Faculty has to do it on its own," Lawton said last night...
...believe in Rockefeller and his heritage. Why shouldn't he express his gratitude to friends with a token gift of a porcelain figurine? This gesture was not a swindle at the expense of the taxpayer. The Carnegie, Rockefeller and Henry Ford families, through their endowments of Libraries and foundations, have contributed much to the peoples of the Americas and other countries...
Smith cited the "gift" of $550,000 to William Ronan when Ronan was chairman of the New York Port Authority as a possible "conflict of interest and attempt to unduly influence public employees." Rockefeller was then governor of New York...