Word: mercouri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phalanx of photographers, TV cameramen and reporters eagerly awaiting her arrival outside the British Museum last week must have reminded Melina Mercouri, 57, of her heady days as one of Europe's leading actresses. But in her current role as Greece's Minister of Culture, Mercouri was seeking publicity not for herself but for a favorite cause: the Elgin Marbles, which were the Acropolis Marbles before the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed them in 1801 with the agreement of the occupying Turkish Ottoman Empire. Athens says it wants them back; the British say that the Greeks have, terribly...
Elegant examples of both past and present Aegean treasures were on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. But only fleetingly. One treasure, Actress Melina Mercouri, 57 (Never on Sunday), had to return home after paying a social call on "The Search for Alexander," the traveling collection of 180 works of art from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.). The artifacts will follow her home when the show ends its seven-city, three-year tour next July. But Mercouri, Greece's Minister of Culture, has not had much luck getting...
...some Greeks, no doubt, Papandreou's appeal lay in his anti-Americanism. Boasted Actress Melina Mercouri, who won re-election on the PASOK ticket from the same Piraeus district in which she filmed Never on Sunday, and who has been appointed Minister of Culture and Sciences in the new government: "The U.S. treated us like a protectorate. Now the Americans will respect...
...Adam Pepelassis, governor of the Agricultural Bank of Greece: "The Greek who ten years ago was riding a donkey and now drives a second car wants change to continue. There has been individual emancipation but not institutional change. The educational system, banks, the church have lagged behind." Actress Melina Mercouri, who is running for reelection on the PASOK ticket from the same Piraeus district in which she never worked on Sunday, points toward the harbor from her penthouse in Athens' posh Kolonaki district. "Can you imagine that almost within sight of us there are thousands of people living without...
Following the ritual wreath laying at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe-attended by such fellow Socialists as former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Greek Actress and Parliamentarian Melina Mercouri-Mitterrand proceeded to the Left Bank and a new ceremony of his own: a pilgrimage to the Panthéon that provided a television spectacular that was even better orchestrated than Giscard's farewell...