Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...logic of this situation, pressed to its extreme, is that the museum curator becomes a mere appendage to the p.r. firm, which finds a "sexy" theme, sells it to the client, sets up the package and punches it into museum schedules. Such is the case with "Hawaii: The Royal Isles," a blockbuster without the block, which opened last week at the Art Institute of Chicago. Until 1983, as it trundles from one major museum to another around the U.S., this show of more than 300 objects will be flacked up as a "major" statement about the ethnic culture...
...Washington, Mugabe was given a royal reception. While drums and trumpets sounded, an honor guard saluted the Prime Minister on his arrival at the White House. During a private chat with Jimmy Carter, Mugabe once again stressed his country's urgent need for foreign aid; he has requested $350 million, but the U.S. so far has sent or promised only $105 million in grants and long-term loans during 1980 and 1981. U.S. officials maintain lamely-and shortsightedly, given the U.S. interest in Mugabe's success-that budget problems prevent sending more...
...wealth the Shah plundered from Iran is ours without any shadow of doubt. According to the laws in force under the Pahlavi regime, the royal family as well as the Shah had no right to engage in business. And all transactions they made were laced with payoffs, coercion and illegal influence games...
...take some action, perhaps a cut in oil production.* The Saudis saw the Israeli action both as a calculated insult to the Arab world and as final proof that under present conditions the Israelis simply are not prepared to negotiate a Palestinian settlement in any serious way. The Saudi royal family, moreover, looks upon itself as the guardian of Islam's holy places, which include Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab Old City...
...briefly tantalizing moment last week, those were the questions being asked in the world of Big Oil. Breathless dispatches out of Lagos, Nigeria, hinted at an erupting major scandal. On one side were the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Mobil and Gulf Oil. Arrayed against them was the ten-month-old civilian government of President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, which seemed to be charging that the oil companies had somehow or other tricked it out of 183 million bbl. of high-quality Nigerian crude. The government appeared to demand that the oil be either returned or paid for. The situation took on added...