Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The show comes with a detailed, argumentative and altogether excellent catalog by the art historian Konrad Oberhuber, who has carried Poussin studies well beyond the point at which they were left at the death of Anthony Blunt. It will not travel to any other museums. And it is a wonderful show, bound to correct whatever stereotypes one may have about Poussin the cold, the correct, the theoretician of mode and decorum...
...between, say, 1875 and 1900. The railroads spreading west, the telephone, mass manufacture, elevators, a thousand other new items of technology -- all transformed America, opened its markets and shortened its distances. The world today is becoming a global society, and a much smaller planet, because of satellites, computers, jet travel, the interpenetrations of world markets, and the fact that Communism has grown cold in its extremities...
...TRAVEL: Trump acquires the ultimate power...
...time Virginia Woolf wrote To the Lighthouse, the building of lighthouses was a technological problem comparable to the space-shuttle program today. For sailors to travel the seas the lighthouses had to be there. Sources of light, methods of reflection, ways of dealing with offshore building conditions, were all popular and important subjects in scientific journals of the time. Even today, getting work materials onto Thacher Island isn't easy...
Mernick's family has long dealt in real estate, and his worth is estimated at $40 million. Heretofore he has made more mundane investments: landfill sites, travel agencies and assorted properties. He negotiated with M.C. ("Red") Benton, the wily PTL trustee named by a federal bankruptcy court, outbidding another Canadian with a $115 million offer. Some $65 million of that is supposed to be dispersed eventually among PTL creditors, the IRS and the 114,200 "lifetime partners" who each gave Bakker $1,000 or more to help develop the ministry...