Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reception at Andover Hall, the Buddhist leader received several gifts from Cox and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, including a miniature Liberty Bell. Offering the metallic souvenir, Cox said, "We would like to think of Harvard as an old school, but we feel very young in your presence...
...aides are announcing that private donations up to $5,000 will be accepted to finance these and other expenses-a limitation meant to exclude undue influence from wealthy corporations. Initial financing will come mostly from a $500,000 advance from Pennsylvania's Franklin Mint on the sale of souvenir inaugural medals, bearing Carter's likeness. The sales may eventually net the inaugural committee $1 million...
...umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively flat. Collection was almost an orthodox collage: layers of souvenir-like junk half-effaced by swaths and spatters of bright red paint. (Rauschenberg liked color to have the same "given" quality as a found object; discovering some unlabeled cans of house paint on sale for 50 each, he opened them and painted with whatever color he found inside...
...that. The knowledge gained from Mr. Gordone was priceless and $100 could not begin to pay for that. He told us to forget about it, talked for three more hours, and at the end of the night, he asked us to send him a Harvard t-shirt for a souvenir...
...have not had retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again; and one sees another small but distinct step in the Met's transformation from the greatest...