Word: miro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surrounded in his office on the fifth floor of the Seagram Building on Manhattan's Park Avenue by Rodin sculptures and a tapestry by Miro, Edgar Bronfman, 51, the wavy-haired chairman of Seagram Co. Ltd., exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money...
...improperly raised their flags to help countrymen gauge the wind. Adriaan Paulen, president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) detected some hanky-panky in this one, not by the officials but by a Soviet vaulter, who was evicted for giving hand signals to a teammate. Groused Swedish Vaulter Miro Zalar, 23: "Everybody knows they are cheating...
...list of artists redeems the show. From Picasso to Giacommetti to Klee to Miro, the assortment is a Whitman's Sampler of the finest art of the century, worth seeing no matter how it is exhibited...
Despite the Hall-of-Fame line up of artists in the show, the works of some of the big names are less than stellar. Alberto Giacommetti's sculpture "Walking Woman" has none of the impact of his more famous anorexic forms. The works of Miro, Gorky, Moore, and Brancusi are equally disappointing...