Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief. Encircling his neck was a gold-covered wooden band that was probably a symbol of royalty. At his feet was a heavy bronze kettle more than a meter in diameter, decorated with three lions. Imported from Greece, the kettle had apparently been filled with wine for this Celtic Tut's burial. In it was a gold goblet...
...Watergate committee, which included Herman Talmadge, Edward Gurney, and the late Joseph Montoya, Ehrlichman said, "A lot of them have stumbled or in one way or another have been enmeshed." Added Ehrlichman, with scarcely concealed satisfaction: "It's a little bit like the people who opened King Tut's tomb...
Chevy Chase, actor and television personality, when asked by David Frost what he would put in a time capsule: "The King Tut exhibit. That would confuse people in the future...
...crass measure of money and quantity, the exhibition exceeds even the Tutankhamun show now touring the U.S., the Dresden reportedly being insured for $82 million vs. a mere $22 million for Tut, with more than 700 objects vs. Tut's 55. Negotiations for this loan were initiated by National Gallery Director Carter Brown even before the U.S. and the German Democratic Republic established diplomatic relations in 1974. Also involved were the U.S. museums to which the show will later travel, New York's Metropolitan Museum and the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums...
...time capsule left by the Roman world. Since major excavations of its site were completed in the 19th century, Pompeii has been one of the supreme clichés of tourism and, short of an archaeological discovery of Atlantis, which seems improbable, it is likely to remain so. King Tut's tomb had more gold and better works of art, but it gives little impression of how Egyptians below Tutankhamun's level lived. Pompeii has everything, even some mild and (by modern standards) charmingly humane pornography. Thus it has been big cultural box office ever since 1834, when...