Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he rarely goes to Liverpool today, McCartney is lead patron of a fund-raising effort to turn his old school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical music and composed a 90-minute choral epic called Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. It was a brave try for a man who doesn't read or write music. But it turned out to be strangely flat, a criticism that McCartney shrugs off. He was more worried that rock friends...
...marble monument, which now leans 16.5 ft. off center at the top, has been closed to tourists for two years while an international panel of experts came up with a plan for saving it. Everybody has ideas, including a Florentine who suggested erecting a massive statue of Pisa's patron, St. Ranieri, to hold up the bell tower, but engineers finally decided on a more mundane approach. About 800 tons of lead ingots are to be installed at the base to counter the tower's precarious inclinations. To give it some support in the meantime, workers last week began girdling...
...General Command (P.F.L.P.-G.C.). Two months earlier, West German police had arrested 16 members of his terrorist organization. Seized during the raids was a plastic bomb concealed in a Toshiba cassette player, similar to the one that blew up Flight 103. There was other evidence pointing to Jibril. His patron was Syria. His banker for the attack on the Pan Am plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars to a bank account in Vienna belonging to the P.F.L.P.-G.C. Iran's motive seemed obvious enough. The previous July, the U.S.S...
...when the French select Mickey Rourke as a patron saint and Mickey Mouse as the antichrist, they are simply proving their obsession with things American. U.S. pop is their guilty pleasure. The French love American culture even as they love to hate it. Four of their five top-grossing films are from Hollywood, tepid versions of U.S. game shows blanket French TV, and it isn't just American tourists who patronize the Burger King restaurants on the Champs Elysees...
...most striking -- and perplexing -- anomalies of the international art world. It is the repository of a fabled collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist works (180 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 44 Picassos and numerous Seurats, Gauguins and Modiglianis). Yet because of the harshly restrictive policies of its embittered founder-patron, the Barnes has largely withheld its treasures from public view...