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...must be said, straight off, that The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, now at the National Gallery in Washington (it goes to the Metropolitan Museum in New York City in March), is a very odd show. Largely composed of loans from the Greek government, it combines a number of profound, exquisite and completely irreplaceable works of art, which wiser owners would not have exposed to the risks of travel, with an utter shallowness of argument about their social and ritual meanings. Insofar as an exhibition can assemble great sculpture and have practically no scholarly value, this...
...months later, Karan mounted her first show. The eternally jaded fashion crowd gave her a standing ovation, whistling, wildly shouting her name. A month after that, she broke records at a special sale for customers of Bergdorf Goodman, the premier U.S. fashion retailer. Dawn Mello, then Bergdorf's president, recalls the scene when the sale ended: "Donna burst into tears and sat on the floor, weeping, amazed at what she had done...
...economic realities. The John Kennedy parallel is inescapable -- how vividly his sporting vitality contrasted with the solemn visages of Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. Once again it seems apt to recall William Wordsworth's lines in thrall of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very Heaven...
...begins before dawn for Jon E. Kossow...
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, A VENEZUELAN STATE radio-TV channel broadcast a tape of Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias declaring that President Carlos Andres Perez had been deposed by a coup. Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels...