Word: theys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In any case, whom does the art boom benefit? Only collectors and middlemen. Few artists get to share in it. This is partly because boom conditions create an unreal system of reputation, with most of the benefits going to a handful of stars at the top and scarcely anything to...
As museums become more dependent on corporate funding, this drift away from serious, intelligent exhibition toward spectacle will increase. There will be much more wrapping for mass appeal, in the form of Tut-style blockbusters and Pompeian frolics. Meanwhile, the proper functions of the museum will receive proportionately less support...
The week ended with recriminations and bruised feelings all around, not to mention a large waste of official Washington's time. Brzezinski retained a lawyer to explore the possibility of a libel suit. At the Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee defended the series by Quinn, who happens to be...
Protons, which along with neutrons form the nuclei of atoms-and hence the bulk of the matter in the universe -have long been regarded as permanent fixtures on the subatomic scene, members of a family of heavy particles known as baryons. If they happened to collide with still other subatomic...
Now that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called...