Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louise Nevelson, the doyenne of American sculpture, is 80 this year. Over the past four decades-she did not have her first exhibition until 1941-the work of this Russian-born artist, an immigrant from Kiev, has become one of the indispensable points of reference in American art as a whole. Her walls of wooden boxes, painted black, white or gold and containing arrays of scraps and found objects, occupy a unique mid-point between the grids of cubism and the dream landscapes of surrealism, displaying a tough analytical sense that is at the same time drenched in fantasy...
...Soviet scientists are reviving a more down-to-earth explanation. After six years of investigation, researchers at the Institute of Geochemistry and Mineral Physics in Kiev have concluded that the blast was caused by something less exotic: a meteorite. Many scientists in the past refused to accept the meteorite theory because there is no trace of any impact crater at the center of the destruction, in the isolated Tunguska area, about 950 km (590 miles) north of Irkutsk...
...State Department withdrew an advance party of seven American consular officials from Kiev and expelled 17 Soviet diplomats from a temporary consulate in New York City...