Word: impresario
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...beautiful," waxes J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, who next May is planning to mount the first Helga exhibition. "You are looking over the shoulder of a great master at work." Thomas Hoving, editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine and the leading impresario of fine-art hyperbole, proclaims that the group is "unique in art history -- to suddenly have before you this monumental body of great American painting. It's a mighty poke, a sharp stick between the eyes of those who dismiss Wyeth as nostalgic. It's his weapon, his dissent...
...defiance of the American television networks, against the wishes of much of the amateur athletic world and without the blessing of the Reagan Administration, Atlanta Yachtsman and Cable TV Impresario Ted Turner has thrown himself a Moscow Olympics complete with flags, anthems and accusations of cheating. To the strains of dueling boycotts, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had been avoiding each other on the playground for ten years until last week. Opening the Goodwill Games, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev referred to "the lurking catastrophe" and "the dangerous race toward the abyss" in his cheerful welcome to some 70 nations, not including...
When Joseph Papp, the nation's leading impresario of serious drama, decided to produce Cuba and His Teddy Bear at New York City's Public Theater, stage veterans gaped at the good fortune of Playwright Reinaldo Povod, 26. A product of Manhattan's turbulent Lower East Side, Povod had never before even written a full-length play. Envy turned to astonishment when Papp announced the show would star Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After...
...have recently received a letter from the committee in charge of the 350th Anniversary, informing me that the celebration in the Stadium in early September will be produced by the same impresario who gave us the opening and closing ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympics. The letter says that for a mere $500, I can be admitted to the circle of honor, presumably halfway up and at midfield, for the best view of the spectacle...
...Later, without consult- ing Kohl, the White House announced that the President would address the European Parliament instead. The seeming ineptitude surrounding the Reagan plans is particularly surprising since it is the final project being handled by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the President's usually masterly impresario, be- fore he leaves the White House for private life...