Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guardians of the Secret. It has good groups of pictures by Clyfford Still and Philip Guston, but strangely enough it is relatively weak where it should be rock solid-in San Francisco art. Most of the top Bay Area names are represented-Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Manuel Neri, William Wiley and so on-but not always with works of the first quality. The uninitiated visitor would hardly guess how strong a creative center San Francisco has been over the past half-century, or how much of its value lies in its distinctive character...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Lisa McLaughlin, Lawrence Mondi, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen...
...that point, the Kings declared that the visitor center would pre-empt their own ambitious plans for an "interactive" museum -- and the battle was joined. The family's position infuriates community leaders, who have watched the Park Service renovate many neighborhood homes and take an active role in this low-income area, while they regard the Kings as standoffish outsiders. "We hardly see any of these people," says Mtamanika Youngblood, who heads a local historic-preservation program. "For them to unilaterally decide that the National Park Service cannot stay in this community is not acceptable...
...bill requiring a three-fifths vote to raise income taxes. A great idea -- if you're rich. The change applies only to the most progressive form of taxation, the one that forces the well-off to pay more than others. All the government's other revenue raisers -- from national- park admission fees to gas and cigarette taxes -- can still be hiked by majority vote. Those levies, which will probably rise if Newt's other tax- cutting schemes become law, are the regressive ones, which hit the middle class and poor hardest. Make no mistake. Upward income redistribution -- leaving the less...
Heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. battle the Park Service...