Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Pro-Iranian Shiite Moslems claimed yesterday they had executed Lt. Col. William R. Higgins and released a videotape purporting to show the U.S. Marine hanging from a makeshift gallows...
BOSTON--A coalition including a likely Republican candidate for state treasurer and a radio talk show host proposed a state constitutional amendment yesterday that would limit top elected officials to two terms...
Other artists in the show use the real world as raw material. Charred, rough-edged and yellowed, Shinro Ohtake's mixed-media assemblages and collage- filled scrapbooks seek an awkward beauty in combinations of found objects and unwanted rubbish. Such pieces as his Family Tree, 1986-88, serve as vivid symbols of the appropriationist free-for-all that is Japanese pop culture today -- a tsunami of Mickey Mouse trinkets, teriyaki burgers, Picasso calendars, Swatches and more. They are also dispassionate records of life in what Ohtake calls an "information supermarket," an environment in which traditional Japanese cultural values...
...abroad jumped nearly 30%, thanks largely to a declining U.S. dollar. One reason U.S. firms should find receptive markets overseas is that the economies of Western Europe and Japan are still rapidly expanding. European Community members are expected to sustain 3% growth in 1989, and Japan is likely to show a 5% gain for the fiscal year ending next March...
...first major U.S. museum show of contemporary Japanese art in more than two decades, artists look at nature and at the making of art in unexpected ways...