Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is a beautiful, bronzed Greek youth who spent 1,800 years under the Adriatic Sea before wandering through Europe doing in a place like Denver? That is just what Italian legal authorities, international art dealers and American tax collectors are asking themselves...
...international fuss over the powerfully muscled youth, actually a 4th century B.C. sculpture from Greece's Golden Age, is not the usual art dispute over authenticity. The experts agree that the graceful figure is either the only existing original work by the master sculptor Lysippus or, at least, from his school. At issue is whether the statue was smuggled illegally out of Italy and whether California's J. Paul Getty Museum, which acquired the statue earlier this year in London for $3.9 million, must pay a California sales tax or a Colorado use tax -or neither...
...Greek youth's peregrinations between 1964 and 1972, when Getty Museum Curator Jiri Frel viewed him in Munich, are uncertain. By then, ownership was claimed by Artemis, a Luxembourg-based art consortium. Getty, the late oil billionaire, had begun a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities at his U.S. home in Malibu, Calif., and expressed interest in the statue. But even he balked at the asking price-about $5 million. After his death in 1976, officials at his museum continued the quest for the statue, finally arriving at a deal this year...
Upon closer examination, however, the new shows prove to be quite unlike the older ones whose formulas they borrow; plots and characters may be similar, but the message they deliver is not. ABC's blockbusters are downright obsessed with two subjects-youth and sex-that were never too important to earlier successful series. Obviously this twin fixation strikes a popular chord-for the Tuesday night hits win every age group in the Nielsen survey. The America they reflect is younger and sassier than the one that once embraced Lucy and Dobie. Happy Days'frantic pace...
...country has been such a stranger at one time or another. In Eagle (population 100), the town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point between youth and retirement, staying on as long as a lifetime, or as briefly as one miserable, snow-bound winter. McPhee is fascinated by these people. Why did they come? What were they looking for, what were they running from? And what kind of person can survive--literally survive--the isolation, the forty-below...