Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweeps through the Whitney Museum, whose big Bicentennial show, "200 Years of American Sculpture," opened this month. This is a historically complex and potentially important survey, involving seven curators, 345 works of art and a catalogue as thick as a phone book. But in order to secure impact, the Philadelphia pop architects Venturi & Rauch were engaged to package it, while all seven curators-who chose the show's contents-were locked out of the galleries during installation...
...PHILADELPHIA, the mayor doesn't have to write a letter to the editor--if he doesn't like what he reads, he simply shuts the paper down...
...Philadelphia (circ. 122,000) has no peers among city magazines in investigative reporting. Among the imaginatively illustrated magazine's bigger muckraking scoops: the revelation that a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter was blackmailing banks and businesses by threatening to give them bad publicity (the reporter was suspended from the Inquirer and eventually convicted), and an expose detailing how local politicians had fouled up Philadelphia's Bicentennial celebration by mismanaging funds (as a result, the city restored to the welfare fund $500,000 that it had earlier diverted to the Bicentennial). Philadelphia 's success is due to the unwavering localism...
Jewett said three of the ten targeted areas accounted for much of the increase in black applicants, citing the New Jersey-Philadelphia area, Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Ga., as the "growth" areas...
...Boston Celtics took two in a row from the Philadelphia '76ers this weekend. The first win came on Saturday night when the Celtics slipped out in front in overtime to beat the '76ers, 104-98. On Sunday afternoon, sparked by the hot hands of Dave Cowens, the Celtics finished ahead...