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Small inherited a vast and (literally) crumbling empire of 16 museums and galleries, 142 million artifacts--ranging from the Wright brothers' biplane to Nancy Reagan's silk-satin Inaugural gown--nine research centers and the National Zoo. Unlike his predecessors, however, Small is neither a scientist nor an academic. He spent 27 years at Citibank, and his last job was COO of Fannie Mae. He plays flamenco guitar and owns a world-class collection of Amazonian art, but he got the job because he knows how to raise money and crunch numbers. His mission was to put the world...
...telling callers to prank-call Geraldo b) castrating and killing a wild boar c) fondling the Pets.com puppet d) comparing his show to a "zoo...
...spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas with Platform, a three-hour series of elegant tableaux about a music group that evolves from agit-prop in 1979 to Mandarin pop a decade later...
...grandchildren to the zoo quite a bit and I noticed that it had deteriorated," says Nora Harris, who filed the suit three years ago. "That's what got me interested...
When she learned that the city planned to finance part of the library land acquisition using funds earmarked for the zoo and parks, Harris says she became interested in the case...