Word: salons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jazz With Paul Barringer and Friends: Pendleton Concert Salon, Wellesley College...
...there were plenty of opportunities for Gorbachev to ply his foreign policy wares. At the presidential Elysee Palace, he was once again welcomed by Mitterrand; then the two men slipped into a second-floor salon for a two-hour 15-minute get-acquainted session. By and large, their talks were a broad examination of the East-West climate, and especially of the balance of ) conventional and nuclear military forces in Europe. Both men mentioned Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Mitterrand, who has expressed reservations about the U.S. program, carefully avoided any remarks that could make it appear he was siding...
...York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...
...jiving with each other through open car windows. Just south on St. Nicholas Avenue at El Pablon Chino restaurant, the Chinese waiter serves fried Dominican sausage and chop suey; he speaks Spanish, but no English. Along one refurbished commercial block in Flushing, Asia is scrunched together: Korean beauty salon, Chinese hardware store, Pakistani-Indian spice and grocery store, Chinese wristwatch shop, Korean barber...
...crammed pantheon of the briefly new, is the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the 1985 version of which closed on Sunday. The importance of the biennial lies in the absence of other exhibitions that do the same job. It is a salon, though a very biased one (it scants realist painting, for instance, in favor of more nominally "advanced" styles), and as such it is the one regular national survey of American art held by a major U.S. museum. It pretends to be plain reportage, but it is nothing of the sort...