Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dine, at the age of 41, can look back on almost two decades of creativity and success as an artist. Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1959, fresh from the University of Cinncinnati and the Boston Museum School, he met and was influenced by Claes Oldenburg, Jaspar Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. During the 1960s he became a major figure in the movement back to realism that formed in reaction to abstract expressionism...
...major trouble spot for Harvard last year. Oft-injured Tom Bixby managed to get into only seven matches at the position, at one point having his collar bone broken by Yale's defending NCAA champion, Jim Benett. Four other grapplers took a shot at the job with little success...
...these gondolas, through the mighty hoo-ha raised by his winning the first prize at the Venice Biennale. Few now doubted that art's center had migrated to New York, and this ignited an orgy of chauvinism on both sides of the Atlantic. Some forms of success, Degas once said, are indistinguishable from panic. This was one. Rauschenberg was now a celebrity, almost the Most Famous Artist in the World. His critics were quick to blame him for every crassness that attended the promotion...
Selling the Farm. Still, why sell to an Australian instead of seeking other American prospects? Some Schiff associates speculate that Murdoch's publishing success and personal vigor remind her of the late Lord Beaverbrook, her fond mentor. But unlike Beaverbrook, who used his newspapers to influence British politics, Murdoch is out to make merry and money. The son of a prominent Australian journalist, Sir Keith Murdoch, Oxford-educated Rupert inherited a lackluster Adelaide daily in 1952 and parlayed it into an empire on three continents that today includes 87 newspapers, eleven magazines, seven broadcast stations, and an airline service...
...trouble is that he has "run out of bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that the resulting publicity would cause the network to reverse its decision and put the man on as a regularly scheduled Mad Prophet of the airways; that emboldened by this success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time to a revolutionary group something like the Symbionese Liberation Army so they can stage their heists before a slack-jawed mass audience; that meantime the Mad Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational...