Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The problem: an electric-power failure at an AT&T switching center had knocked out the company's long-distance telephone service to more than 1 million customers in the New York City area. Thousands were stranded at airports and inside planes on runways because the outage severed communications links...
In the past decade the American public, mainly in New York City and Washington, has been treated to one of the historic events in the life of the modern museum: the collaboration between U.S. institutions and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French...
Nor is the sense of exaltation these shows leave behind untinged with regret: one knows that this golden moment of the museum retrospective, flourishing amid the corrosive vulgarity that overtook the American art world in the 1980s, will not return. Its coda, and in some ways its climax, is the...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod...
"You do have this feeling [in the American educational system] of this strong urge not to miss the latest political fashion, which I resist," Bois says. This is a resistance, Bois adds, that is based in part on his early training with the very theorists who occupy the current vogue...