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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes very good wine gets kept until last. After a year in which the Metropolitan Museum of Art's public has submitted, once more, to being treated like two tons of anchovies in a cannery in return for a look at Degas, we have an exhibition of 15th century Sienese painting in the Met's Robert Lehman Wing, opening just in time for Christmas. "Painting in Renaissance Siena" is not only a delectable exhibition; there is also a chance that one might be able to see it, given the relative lack of interest in the 15th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escape to Renaissance Siena 15th century painting is a delight | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...child's first-choice school and could pull strings to get him admitted. He charged $1,000, offering the money back if the student did not get in. For the consultant, it was a no-lose proposition: he did nothing, and if the student happened to get in, he kept the money. The I.E.C.A. tries to weed out con artists by requiring members to sign an ethics code. But that is unlikely to dissuade the unscrupulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Spin Doctors of Admissions | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard has not kept its word. An entire semester after the administration promised to release results, only some information has been distributed, and only to some people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Keeping Promises | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...fill RFK stadium to see them because Cooke loved his players with dollars and kept the team in tiny RFK because we made it shake...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Lost Faith: Gibbs and God | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...already gone into Widener on my own and read [Black authors]," he says. "But Rosenblatt's course was the first time that literature was brought into the classroom for me, and I just kept on with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rampersad | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

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