Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 19, he already knows that he will dominate the art world for the rest of his life. If anyone doubts the implicit truth of Pablo Picasso's 1901 self-portrait, he has only to walk farther into Paris' new Picasso Museum, which opened last week. There, spread out like all the treasures from Aladdin's cave, are the gems of nearly three-quarters of a century of labor: 228 paintings, 149 sculptures, nearly 1,500 drawings and just as many engravings...
Stopping the spread of AIDS is possible, but will happen only when people exercize more caution in their social behavior, the director of one of the nation's leading health research centers said yesterday at a Harvard health conference...
...addition, without a union workers must currently undertake tedious and complex grievance procedures just to register complaints or concerns. With the employees spread throughout College and graduate school offices, the central voice of a union would be the only viable means available for staff to raise issues such as comparable worth and health effects of extensive computer...
...brighter side, said acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. James Mason, recent studies show declines in the rate of syphilis and gonorrhea, indicating that some Americans have already become less promiscuous, possibly out of fear of AIDS or herpes. As a result, the spread of the AIDS virus may be slowing. "This disease is controllable now," said Mason. Despite some of the frightening evidence to the contrary, he insisted, "the feeling of helplessness that many Americans feel is absolutely unnecessary and counterproductive...
...like Topsy, has just grown. From a planned year's duration, it has stretched to two, with the last events now scheduled in late 1987. Beginning with cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it has spread to trend-spotting stores (New York City's Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's). Then it mushroomed as smaller institutions around the nation clamored to join...