Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience or to himself, so he started doing smaller pieces and selling them in bars and at rock shows. He says that by year's end he will have sold 17,000 paintings in six years, and it's O.K. with him that not one of them will hang in New York City's Museum of Modern...
...York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other by an anonymous German owner. Last month the Boston Globe published a lengthy investigation that raised questions about paintings by Degas, Picasso, Cezanne and other masters that now hang in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and in the Fogg Museum of Harvard University. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum as well as Sotheby's and Christie's all possess or, in the case of the auction houses, have recently sold works that may have been confiscated...
...backyard or poolside computing. Meanwhile, SuperSonic II ($200) from Diamond Multimedia yokes two modems (and two phone lines) together to bring the effective bandwidth up to 112 kbps (kilobits per sec.). If someone calls while you're online, the system just cuts the speed in half until you hang up the phone and then kicks back into full double-barrel bandwidth...
...former British colony's status under the dictum of "one country, two systems." China itself, strangely enough, is ranked Number 120, and deemed "mostly unfree." Beijing investors, evidently, have much to learn from their brothers to the south: like the thrill of watching the bottom drop out of the Hang Seng index, for example...
WASHINGTON: The national economic indicators for the July-September quarter are in, and there's enough good news for everyone (except maybe Alan Greenspan). Economic growth, expected to dip below 3 percent, continues to hang tough at 3.3 percent...