Word: memorabilia
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...hardly his only influence. Bacon's debt to Rembrandt's 1655 Carcass of Beef, for example, is obvious in his own renderings of raw meat. But when Bacon died in 1992, he left behind a London studio dominated by the reproductions, press clippings, published anecdotes and other worked-over memorabilia of one painter: Pablo Picasso. Such single-mindedness makes for a great two-person show...
...seed of Schlesinger’s present collection is a set of books, papers, and memorabilia donated to Radcliffe College in 1943 by Maud Wood Park, Class of 1898. To house this donation, the Women’s Archives was established. They expanded through the 1940’s and 1950’s to become the Schlesinger Library, which moved to its present location, between Brattle and Garden Streets, in 1967. The library is named after Harvard University Historian Arthur Schlesinger and his wife Elizabeth...
...Vietnamese capital's historic train station, Hanoi's hippest new hangout is a replica of an old frontier watering hole in the American West. A five-meter-tall cowboy stands outside, twirling a neon lasso over the saloon. Inside, the split-rail walls are decorated with cowboy memorabilia?from cowboy boots to a mounted cowskin?and since it opened in October, trendy young Vietnamese have been packing through the Seventeen Saloon's swinging doors and whooping it up with whiskey and tequila served by waitresses in cowboy hats and jeans...
...launched its own investigation into the company: The Apartment Swap The Blacks "swapped" their flat for one that Hollinger owned in the same building, diverting "a $2.5 million value from Hollinger to Black" The F.D.R. Papers Black had Hollinger "pay $8.9 million to acquire Franklin D. Roosevelt papers and memorabilia without ... board approval." He was writing a biography of F.D.R. at the time Lavish Galas The company footed the bills for Barbara Black's birthday party ($42,870), for "summer drinks" ($24,050) and for dinners with board director Henry Kissinger ($28,480) Hefty Salaries Black and his executives earned...
...more serious and professional here. It's a careful, controlled game." Even casinos that never featured poker are opening new rooms. Within a few months, the Hard Rock will debut a new enclosed room with 10 to 12 tables offering rock 'n' roll poker. "There'll be some rock memorabilia in the room, the cards will have a more neon look to them, you won't hear the blaring music that's on the main casino floor," Pestrichello says. "And purple felt on the tables - I wouldn't rule it out." Affleck, who also plays poker in Los Angeles, feels...