Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Soviet schedulers drew up the standard list of New York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
Gorbachev has long since demonstrated a potent blend of statesmanship and showmanship. He is a natural at working the crowds and attracting attention, as his schedule this week demonstrates. In the capital of capitalism, the world's top Communist will tour Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and perhaps the New York Stock Exchange. As the Secret Service and New York City police department prepared for Gorbachev's arrival, they were terrified that he would leap from his limousine on Wall Street, on Broadway or along Fifth Avenue to press the flesh, just as he did outside a power...
...know better, misused ad nauseam by the art dealers' industry, and rare as the phoenix anyway -- Who wants it? And yet, who doesn't? Sometimes you come across a contemporary exhibition for which there is no other word, and the show of drawings by Richard Diebenkorn at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...