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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...however, did almost scuttle his career. As a way to bring African-American audiences into the museum, Hoving decided in 1967 to mount "Harlem on My Mind," a multimedia documentary survey of the history of Harlem, which opened two years later. The very idea offended people who couldn't understand what a historical show was doing at an art museum. That bad reaction got worse when the show's catalog turned out to contain an essay by a young black woman that included anti-Semitic remarks. In the uproar that followed, Hoving nearly lost his job. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Hoving: The Man Who Made the Modern Met | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...mine to go to Hollywood and be able to work—that’s a blessing, that’s a gift. The worst is [that] it’s such a pivotal period of transition for our industry because of new technology and trying to understand how we should monetize it and how to share the profits of that and see how we actors fit into that. It’s harder to make a mark in the industry today than it was 20 years...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Criticism never really bothers me because if you do something against the grain you’re always going to have people who don’t understand it and be resistant to it. If you’re an artist, you either learn to deal with it and not let it sweep you away or not. You gotta be true...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...took us awhile to understand the attachment that the current students and alumni have to the name ‘Plympton,’” said Duehay, who thought of the following alternative only a month...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plympton Street To Retain Name | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...understand, based on our brief experience at seedy sports bars and after previous controversies at elite universities, that women and sports are touchy subjects. But food items? We at FlyBy are much too gluttonously in love with nomnoms to understand that...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Its Never Too Late to Apologize | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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