Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolly-Michaux Gallery Through November 26 "An official whom I'd heard of as the Flemish patron-of-the-arts was showing me around his apartment one day, consulting me in front of each painting, talking a little about Art, a lot about nature, praising the landscape, explaining the subject and, above all, pointing out the price of each work to me..." Baudelaire...
...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...
...oily instrument of his misdeeds. As played by Ben Kingsley, he is curiously modern, the unctuous image of the Madison Avenue p.r. man. "Mosca, this was thy invention?" asks Volpone after a show by his weird trio of dwarf, hermaphrodite and eunuch. "If it please my patron," he answers. "Not else...
...smashed." At Elaine's restaurant on Manhattan's upper East Side, tables were moved outdoors for a block party. The guests included Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol and Designer Calvin Klein. At One Fifth, a Greenwich Village restaurant decorated with fittings from the cruise ship R.M.S. Caronia, a patron quipped: "We've hit an iceberg." Pianist Nat Jones scrounged a candle to light his keyboard and played It Ain't Necessarily So. Unfortunately...
...Trouble. Demonstrating that hearts and minds policy, some days earlier Trudeau put in an appearance in Quebec at the annual holiday honoring St. Jean Baptiste, the province's patron saint. There, Quebec Premier René Lévesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers...