Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the vaccine had to be specially freeze-dried to survive in the tropics without refrigeration. To administer it effectively-not always an easy task in areas where modern medicine is virtually unknown-WHO used a simple two-pronged needle developed by Wyeth Laboratories. It held just a single drop of vaccine between the points and could be used to make 15 quick jabs into the skin-a nearly foolproof technique that almost anyone could master...
...strongly resent Robert Hughes' snide remarks concerning the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective show of Andrew Wyeth...
...applaud "Hard-Sell" Hoving. He, at least, has enough sense to realize that museums must sell, and that Wyeth's "small and somewhat predictable area of visual sensation" is vastly preferable to Jackson Pollock's large and somehow unpredictable area of dribbles and drops...
...shrill tone in which Robert Hughes discussed Andrew Wyeth puzzled me at first until I realized that Wyeth is guilty of two unforgivable sins: he is popular with the people and his art is representational...
Starting with Jackson Pollock, one can easily think of a dozen modern American artists who have not had retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again...