Word: pontus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bloodshy's new writing-producing partner is Avant (real name: Pontus Winnberg). The pair spend their days writing, experimenting and playing with all their toys - computers, mixing boards, remote control cars - in a downstairs studio at Murlyn...
...less), the exhibition marks the opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi (Grassi Palace Society for Actions), housed in an 18th century structure whose restoration and conversion was brilliantly carried out by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti. The new museum, lavishly funded by Fiat, is run by Pontus Hulten, former director of the Pompidou Center in Paris...
...determination. "You should have seen him fighting," says the president of the Greek wrestling federation. "He just refuses to give up." Yet in private, Holidis is timid and self-effacing; he speaks the language of his adopted country haltingly and plainly prefers silence. His parents emigrated from the Pontus region of Turkey when he was nine. He discovered wrestling at 13 and won a national championship within a year. His single-mindedness about his sport has led to bouts of psychological stress and fatigue. If he can grapple with himself, his coaches feel, Holidis' chances for a medal this summer...
...itself was, in either case, extraordinary. The best of the three was "Paris-Berlin," although one needed the stamina of a goat to traverse the screes and piles of evidence it presented. But in all three shows there was the lure of epic subject, rightly presented by Director Pontus Hulten and his staff as one of the great dramas of cultural history...
...illustrating the relationships between Paris and three modernist capitals: New York (1977), Berlin (1978) and Moscow. The sheer size of the Soviet loan-some 2,000 works in all media, from paintings to agitprop posters, from architectural drawings to teacups and chess sets-put the center's director, Pontus Hulten, at a disadvantage in bargaining. The Russian side of the show is wholly chosen and catalogued by Soviet experts, whose essays (as one might expect) gloss over the brutal fate of the culture they discuss and, as art history, are not pitched at the level of scholarship a European...