Word: spender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn strategists believe that Mondale is too liberal for most Democrats. They cite exit polls from the 1980 Democratic primaries showing that two-thirds of the voters called themselves "moderate to conservative." With this in mind, Glenn has attacked the front runner as a big spender who is soft on defense...
...Hockney Paints the Stage," a lavish and delectable survey of the theater work of the English painter David Hockney, which opened last week at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was organized by the Walker's director, Martin Friedman, whose catalogue, with additional essays by Poet Stephen Spender and Theater Director John Dexter, is the definitive work on Hockney as stage designer. The show will travel to Mexico City, Toronto, Chicago, Fort Worth and San Francisco, but not east of the Hudson. The irony is that most of Hockney's American theater audience, meaning the people...
...Stephen Spender, British writer, on visiting a U.S. shopping mall: "It's like a zoo in which the inhabitants happen to be human beings, very excited about their new cage...
...Brandenburg, a German nobleman who had previously acquired a dispensation from the Vatican to become a priest while underage and to head two dioceses at the same time, wanted yet another favor from the Pope: the powerful archbishop's chair in Mainz. Pope Leo X, a profligate spender who needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica, granted the appointment-for 24,000 gold pieces, roughly equal to the annual imperial revenues in Germany. It was worth it. Besides being a rich source of income, the Mainz post brought Albrecht a vote for the next Holy Roman Emperor...
...American no longer has the image of a spender who throws away money," says Athens American Express General Manager George Efthyvoulidis. "He expects something in return." That lesson is apparent at least to Johannes Brenner, who owns a popular souvenir shop behind the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich. "In former years," he confesses, "Americans were the main customers for those porcelain monsters-the huge vases and ornate groups and centerpieces, laced figurines and gilded plates. Now we sell those to the Near East. Americans know too well what Rosenthal, Meissen and Nymphenburg should look like. We still sell...