Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daily ritual of morning rounds finally comes to an end. Since 7:30 a.m., eight new young doctors have been pelted with a steady stream of questions from Magnus Ohman, the senior cardiologist, who is leading the group this morning: Which famous painter suffered from digoxin poisoning? (Van Gogh.) How does a chest X ray look when a breast implant leaks? (Trick question: it looks the same.) Which episode of ER fits the patient in 7206? The dazed residents protest that they have no time for television. "You've got to watch ER," Ohman lectures. "Patients come...
...PEOPLE'S CHOICE Vermeer was a blockbuster at Washington's National Gallery in 1996. But for many art lovers, the true Dutch master is Vincent van Gogh. The largest exhibition of his works to appear outside the Netherlands in 25 years opens at the gallery...
...Vincent Van Gogh's Irises fetches $53.9 million at auction...
Last year's April Fool's issue claimed that a Vincent Van Gogh painting housed in the Yale University Art Gallery was a forgery. And the year before, the Herald announced, in the midst of a bitter strike by Yale's dining services employees, that the McDonald's restaurant chain would take over the school's dining halls...
...exhibits are self-contained and easily manageable in an afternoon, so there's no need to wade through acres of Post-Impressionist gaffes before you find a masterpiece. Particularly noteworthy are the installations of abstract art, German expressionism and the Impressionists, the latter containing an absolutely terrific Van Gogh self-portrait. Plus, it's all FREE with your Harvard I.D. FREE! That's over $20 less than paying someone $20 for no reason whatsoever...