Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
...eleven years as Washington bureau chief of the Times, Reston proved a shrewd man at spotting talent. He also instituted a practice, like a Supreme Court Justice's, of selecting young interns to "clerk" for a year; out of this group came the present bureau chief, Craig Whitney, as well as Times correspondents at the White House, the State Department and on Capitol Hill. In Reston they found a hard-working, long-hours boss, congenial colleague and fierce defender of his troops...
...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
After editors in New York discovered the mistake, Reporter Fox Butterfield, who wrote the initial story, drafted a correction. Whitney and the editors eventually agreed that the error should not simply be noted on page 3, where mistakes are usually acknowledged, but be placed on the bottom of the front page. Frankel, however, decided to put the correction at the top. "We felt we had to tell the world loud and clear, 'We were wrong,' " he said. "We are laying down history...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...