Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign competitors have made startling gains in many fields once dominated by American manufacturers. These graphs show how the percentage of the U.S. market held by American industries has declined since 1970. While steel producers are making at least a modest comeback, the figures show that U.S. consumer electronics is almost gone...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, local Communists and Islamic fundamentalists -- put together broadly representative "popular committees" in almost every camp and village. The factions organized a loose coordinating body, the Unified National Leadership. "We are running the show, not those outside the territories," says a Palestinian who has become one of the leaders of the uprising in the West Bank. Like the other leaders, he insists on anonymity; call him Mahmoud...
...will be seen through the fall at the Art Institute of Chicago and in early 1989 at the Grand Palais in Paris, is of this kind. When the National Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris found they were all planning separate shows on different aspects of Gauguin -- his prints, his Brittany paintings and his Tahitian work -- it seemed obvious to merge the three. The result, thanks to its curators (Francoise Cachin and Claire Freches-Thory in France, Richard Brettell and Charles F. Stuckey in the U.S.), is both a curatorial masterpiece...
...work, done between his final departure from France in 1895 and his death on the tiny, remote island of Hivaoa in 1903, was bought en bloc by Russian collectors, ended up in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, and has not been seen in the West since 1906. The show contains eleven of these "Russian" Gauguins...
Such an image of Gauguin, as Stuckey and Brettell show by exhaustive research, is mostly moonshine. The brute of fiction was not only a superbly intelligent painter but also a writer who left, as Brettell points out, the "largest and most important body of texts, illustrated and otherwise, produced by any great artist in France since . . . Delacroix . . . That he has always been treated as a businessman-turned-artist rather than an artist- turned-writer shows the extent to which his literary achievement has been undervalued...