Word: pontus
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...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...