Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graves' Disease--hyperthyroidism and opthalmopathy. In my case, I have yet to develop the latter, a pronounced bulging of the eyeballs. Hopefully preventive treatment will keep this aspect of the disease from developing. I do, however, suffer from hyperthyroidism, and its mysterious effects were what triggered my initial visit to a doctor...
Calder's jump into originality as a sculptor is one of those flash-bang conversion tales in which the legends of early modern art abound. It seems that in 1930 he went to visit Mondrian, the great Dutch abstractionist, in his Paris studio. He already admired Mondrian's work, but he had never seen its environment before--that fanatically judged, ordered workplace of white and primary colors where even the Victrola was painted red. Rectangles of painted cardboard were pinned around the walls, and Calder was seized with the desire to see them move. They should oscillate at different speeds...
...supposed to be a routine visit to Dad's place in Framingham, Mass., back in 1979. But the weekend visitation for two daughters of divorce ended up lasting 18 1/2 years when Dad told the girls, then 5 and 2, that Mom had died in a car crash and they were moving to Florida to begin a new life. And that they did. Sources say Dad had a knack for charming wealthy women, and he lived a life of luxury in Palm Beach, where he called himself William Martin and variously passed himself off as a doctor, a Harvard-educated...
When asked if he would have cheered or protested Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard last October, Wang deferred judgment and joked that it would have depended on whether he had class that...
Wang received a copy of Goldman's book fromWang Jungtao, another dissident and Wang's mentor,who later arranged for Wang Dan's visit toHarvard...