Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago show was organized by the late A. James Speyer (from 1961 to 1986 the Art Institute's curator of 20th century painting) and Mark Rosenthal of the Philadelphia Museum, who wrote its catalog. It will travel through 1988 to Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York City. An hour at it can be a fairly exhausting experience, like a slog toward a receding horizon across the plowed clay fields that are Kiefer's favorite landscape. His canvases are huge in size and engulfing in scale; he is, one notes, one of the few artists around who really do understand...
...meet, which was held at the Gordon Indoor Track Center, included athletes from all over New England, and involved teams from as far south as Philadelphia...
...Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Edmonton Oilers. The Flyers had scored in the first two minutes of play and had the momentum. But late in the first period, Dave Brown's line went out onto the ice. Edmonton Coach Glenn Sather, exercising the home team's right of the last line change, sent out a line of Mark Messier, Kent Nilsson and Glenn Anderson, the team's fastest trio...
...right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young New Jersey woman. Schmidt predicts that Lazarchick will one day walk, climb stairs and maybe even dance a step...
...After Philadelphia's former law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo was beaten in a 1983 Democratic primary by black City Managing Director Wilson Goode, he refused to stay quietly in retirement. This year Rizzo bolted to the Republican Party and ran for his old job, blasting Goode for the inept fire bombing of a house of black radicals that killed eleven people and destroyed 61 homes. His appeal to his core constituency of white ethnic voters almost worked. Rizzo last week carried the party's heavily Democratic ethnic wards, but some 98% of blacks stuck with Goode, despite his record...