Word: musuem
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...history of American surfing. But the city council, faced with a $7 million deficit, voted in December to close the city's surfing museum, the world's first and a mecca for locals and tourists alike since it opened in 1986. And it's not just the surfing musuem. The decision includes shutting down the natural-history museum, a teen center, a community center and a public pool...
...right. He told me he hoped that the Russian troops will protect the landmark, out of respect for the leader who is undergoing a small revival in public opinion in both Georgia and Russia. Throughout his conversation with TIME, he nervously checked his text messages for news of the musuem from a neighbor who had stayed on. The phone tinged. "It's okay," he said, with a sigh. "So far it's okay...
...interest in the Carpenter Center primarily because of the complexity of its program, not in terms of massing but in the complexity of activities it is meant to contain. I think that really intrigued him,” says Linda Norden, associate curator of contemporary art at the Fogg Musuem and co-organizer of the exhibition with art historian Scott Rothkopf. “He is attracted to an aspect of Le Corbusier’s utopianism…the disparity between some ideal or detail or piece of a program and how that gets worked...