Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bakker and Dortch could receive lengthy prison terms. They were charged with illegally taking some $4 million in bonuses out of the PTL trough. In addition, says the Government, they vastly oversold lifetime "partnerships" that promised lodging at the Grand Hotel and other accommodations at Bakker's Heritage USA theme park in Fort Mill, S.C. In one variation of the scam, some 9,700 hapless "partners" were offered the right to stay regularly in what turned out to be a single bunkhouse with 48 beds. As for the Taggart brothers, they are said to have helped themselves to $1.1 million...
...Penthouse, John Wesley Fletcher, a former Bakker crony, details homosexual encounters with Bakker, claiming that he also procured other young men for the boss. In ongoing bankruptcy proceedings for PTL itself, an exasperated Judge Rufus Reynolds has thrown out a $115 million bid from a Toronto firm for the theme park, cable network and other holdings, deciding instead to have an auction this week. If the price is not right, or payment terms are not favorable enough, the judge could sell off the properties separately...
Feinstein's newest entry, A Season Inside, once again deals with the theme he knows so well: college basketball. Feinstein is a hoop addict, a writer who could spend the rest of his life locked up in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion watching Kansas' Danny Manning posting up against North Carolina's J.R. Reid, or Arizona's Steve Kerr swishing three-pointers from outside...
...eventually came the measured sense of "luxury, calm and pleasure" that was one of the marks of the School of Paris. The Pastoral Landscape is, among other things, an homage to this idea, and its excellent catalog essays by Robert Cafritz, Lawrence Gowing and David Rosand all bear the theme in mind. Gowing, for instance, believes "the whole pastoral tradition from Bellini to ((Milton)) Avery is simultaneously active in the current understanding of painting...
...Matisse and their later modern heirs -- contains some of the most poignant, influential and exquisitely developed paintings in the history of art. Few of them, in these days of terminally fragile objects and impossible insurance costs, could or should be allowed to travel. An exhibition that dealt with this theme at full stretch would have to include Giorgione's Tempest and his (or Titian's) Concert Champetre, Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods, plus any amount of Rubenses, Poussins, Annibale Carraccis, Claudes, Watteaus, Turners and Matisses, not to mention Manet...