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...Kirk J. Stowers '91 is one of the Harvard students who is put off by the new crowd at the pub. Stowers tells how one day he was talking to a man who had just gotten out of prison. All of a sudden, there were "60 to 70 Eliot House residents...
...subject is explosive, says Chadwick, because to question quality not only challenges cultural history but also "threatens the dealers, curators, critics and auctioneers who control the system that assigns value to artists' works." That may be so, says Kirk Varnedoe, director of the department of painting and sculpture at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, who does not completely accept or reject the feminist critique. But to dismiss the notion of quality, he says, also challenges the very purpose of art criticism and art appreciation. Says Varnedoe: "One is never relieved of the burden of making judgments about...
...MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3 billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian...
There have been two lines of attack. The first: by putting "low" culture -- graffiti, mass print, caricature, comic strips and so forth -- in the museum along with "high," MOMA, under the new curatorial leadership of Kirk Varnedoe, has abandoned its sacred mission of cultural discrimination. The second, and more hip, version: MOMA is too hidebound and elitist an institution to deal with popular culture, or with the recent "high" culture of the '80s, at all. As the clippings pile up, one may expect to see many variations on these themes. One, common to both, is that the show...
...prohibitive favorites even then, got psyched out by the crippled Dodgers. Like a rock 'n' roller when Elvis died, every A's fan remembers where he was at that fateful moment in Game 1 -- bottom of the ninth, Oakland leading 4-3 on a Canseco grand slam -- when Kirk Gibson hobbled . to the plate and gritted a game-winning home run off Eckersley. Sobbing was heard among the faithful; choking was displayed by the players. It was Gibson's only appearance of the pageant, but the A's never shook off his back- from-the-dead blow. They faded...