Word: preservative
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...through tax-exempt donations, Cuno argues that a museum is ultimately a public institution, with a collection “held in trust for the public benefit, upheld by the public purse.” Works that are acquired but not displayed can be seen as “preserv[ing] the cultural diversity of the planet...
Most of the classical revivals at the National smell just as strongly of the lamp. Both Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd lie open and inert on the stage, as if they were exams to be passed and not theatrical experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being...
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