Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Krens moved to the Guggenheim, and the economic boom known as the "Massachusetts Miracle" evaporated, taking the funding with it. Joseph Thompson, Krens' successor, was left holding the baby. He has proved a shrewd parent. Thompson and a local architectural firm, Bruner/Cott & Associates, scaled back the original grand scheme. As a result, they may have ended up with something more interesting...
...placeless is where Gullichsen has always wanted to be. At 38, the wiry, snaggle-haired programmer has achieved what for many entrepreneurs would be the ultimate American Dream: a frictionless, self-propagating moneymaking scheme--in his case, selling a variant of the "domain names" that organize the Web's millions of addresses. "The great thing about my company," he says cheerfully, "is that it doesn't really exist...
...there is no grand marketing scheme behind all this. Turns out it's part accident and part convenience...
...there is no grand marketing scheme behind all this. Turns out it's part accident and part convenience...
...view through Aug. 22) takes us from 1900 to 1950, and the second (to open Sept. 26) will see the story through to the century's end. The show's curator is Barbara Haskell, the only reputable art historian the embattled Whitney had left on its staff when the scheme was launched three years ago, and she has produced a serviceable and often illuminating catalog, reinforced by scores of sidebars on dance, music, film and dozens of other subjects not amenable to gallery treatment, written by no fewer than 22 other contributors. Practically nowhere does this 400-page tome show...