Word: royals
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...least orthodox member of the East bloc, Hungary was the natural starting point for Thatcher's diplomatic opening. From the moment her Royal Air Force VC-10 touched down in Budapest, the Prime Minister sought to find and build on shared moments in history to strengthen the connections between the two countries. At a gala banquet in her honor, she noted that the Magna Carta of 1215 had been an influence on the Golden Bull, a similar document drawn up by a King of Hungary seven years later. She also noted that the bridge across the Danube near...
...focus of this interest is a Royal Commission investigating charges that top government officials in the Bahamas have been involved in drug trafficking and bribery. Prime Minister Lynden Pindling called for the three-man panel last September after an NBC broadcast alleged that a U.S. Justice Department report had linked Pindling and one of his ministers to $100,000-a-month payments from drug traffickers. But any hope Pindling had that the inquiry would eliminate the rumors quickly backfired. At first testimony centered on lower-echelon civil servants: customs officials and police officers who were accused of accepting bribes...
...insufficient." Former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson told the commission he was "gravely concerned about whether the police administration was really concerned about eradicating drug trafficking." Bahamian Attorney General Paul Adderly adds that both the U.S. Justice Department and the State Department have refused to provide evidence to the Royal Commission...
...growing need to experience a sense of community. Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes' Dallas Museum of Art, which opened to the public last week, is the latest and most successful example of integrating community activities with the display of objects. European museums, like Paris' Louvre, originated with royal collections. In America, the old Ecole des Beaux-Arts temples were usually built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home...
...will be remembered as one of the great cultural events of the 1980s. It is a model of how to present high art to a wide public, despite the fact that, in this case, the public is English and has stayed away in droves. With such exhibitions, the Royal Academy, once despised by modernists, becomes as useful to the late 20th century as it ever was to the late 18th. -By Robert Hughes