Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit was part of a two-week Newstour across China, from westernmost Kashgar to Beijing, by Time Warner executives, board members and journalists. We had to remember that this fledgling show of democracy is permitted only at the village level and is, so far, more symbolic than substantive. Government and party officials wearing Motorola beepers wandered the fringe of the crowd, much like the ward leaders at the elections in Louisiana I covered as a cub reporter...
With a defunct sitcom and a fledgling talk show, a girl's got to find some way to get attention. So last week ROSEANNE and the Barr Flies commandeered New York City's legendary downtown club CBGB and cracked some of rock's finer chestnuts. Opening with a Rolling Stones medley, the former Ms. Arnold interpreted Satisfaction in ways Mick Jagger surely never intended and with a refreshing indifference to melody. She screeched her way through My Generation and I Wanna Be Sedated, pausing only to eat chocolate, swill beer and swear, charming the young crowd with her atonal exuberance...
...best you can hope to pick up at most art openings is some vicious gossip and cheap champagne. But at her Fifth Avenue gallery last week, venerable art dealer MARY BOONE offered a little more. For a show featuring a sculpture made of guns, Boone filled a vase with 9-mm cartridges, a thoughtful parting gift for art patrons. Unfortunately, the law didn't see it that way. Police took Boone to jail, where she spent more than 24 hrs. and was charged with possessing an exposed rifle and disposing of ammunition. She maintained the bullets weren't live (ballistics...
...very sensible of her, especially in light of Dutch's maniacal pursuit of all the dreary details of the adulterous back story. This investigation of the painfully obvious is glum and endless and appears to have been designed by writer Kurt Luedtke (working from a Warren Adler novel) to show Dutch in the worst possible light. Apparently, though, Kay has a taste for sullen plodders. No other explanation is offered for her decision to enter into a brief, nervous affair with Dutch...
...Sensation," the Brooklyn Museum of Art's sprawling show of young British artists that has opened up the latest front in the culture wars, is a sheep in wolf's clothing. That was bound to be. Not even an ad man's dream of a drop-dead one-liner can hold its shock past the listener's double take. And "Sensation" is precisely that: a vanity showcase from the collection of British ad mogul Charles Saatchi--loud and "naughty" works juxtaposed with the occasional better one--that has generated more noise than it deserves...