Word: matches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual booklet that used to be titled Notable Acquisitions. In 1986 it was renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where we can no longer expect to match the standards of just a few years ago." To Paul Mellon, long the Maecenas of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "everything important is ridiculously expensive . . . I just refuse to pay these absurd prices." And as the museum's buying power fades, public experience of art is impoverished...
...libretto depends too heavily on whether the industrialist will turn crooked to save his neck (anyone can see he will) and on a love match between the baron and the ballerina that ends almost before it has begun. Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between characters introduced as love and death. Despite these shortcomings, Grand Hotel is the musical winner of the season, bringing to mind, if not quite matching, the kinetic narratives of Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett in their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns...
Mayflower manager Dick Silver chalks it all up to freshness. "That's where the flavor is--in the freshness," he smiles, explaining that all his turkeys come from Massachusetts farms--a claim few supermarkets can match...
SELLING only 300 turkeys a year, Sage's market on Brattle St. can't match Mayflower's volume. But manager Dwight D. Perodeau was able to offer some insight into turkey farming...
...NOTEBOOK: Co-Captain Martina Albright missed the game with a back injury sustained in Harvard's loss to Providence Monday night...The Crimson now has a 10-day layoff before hosting Yale on Saturday, December 2 at Bright Center. In another Ivy League match, Harvard will face Brown at Bright on Wednesday, December...