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True. Before long, Wilde's mannered dandyism was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, whose immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic earned the intended butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large...
Whether Agnos will build on his success depends on his ability to respond to some daunting challenges. A deficit conservatively estimated at $86 million, a shrinking corporate community and an increasing death toll from AIDS have dulled the city's upbeat image. Almost as bad for longtime residents has been the emergence of Los Angeles as California's pre-eminent city...
...closing down or selling off their South African operations to protest apartheid. In a speech while on home leave last spring, however, he said the economic sanctions passed by Congress in 1986, in making "a statement of abhorrence by the American people of a hated system," had been a success...
...postsummit address. Having kept a relatively low profile during most of the visit, he went on national television only two minutes after Gorbachev's blue-and-white Ilyushin Il-62 had roared off into rainy black skies. Speaking from the Oval Office, Reagan called the talks a "clear success," giving cause for "both hope and optimism." But his speech included many declarations of his fundamental opposition to Soviet policies and philosophy. To some extent, Reagan was merely reverting to old familiar themes out of habit. But with an eye to the ratification process, he was also shoring up his right...
...undoubted recent success is James Stirling's multicolored Clore Gallery, a wing of the Tate Gallery, which opened earlier this year as the repository of the Tate's nonpareil J.M.W. Turner collection. Stirling created a well- proportioned and handsome set of viewing rooms with a crisply formal yet amusing exterior, highlighted by a cutaway pediment entrance. As for the National Gallery, after several abortive efforts, including the "carbuncle" debacle, it has settled for restraint: a safe, classically modern stone-faced design by American Architect Robert Venturi for its much needed $63 million extension...