Word: five
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Stalin's memory is alive in his native Georgia. Last week his centenary was celebrated by thousands of Georgians who had gathered in Gori, the dictator's home town. Carrying carnations, chrysanthemums and portraits of Stalin, they danced through the streets to the music of five marching bands. Others crowded into the newly refurbished Stalin museum in Gori, or gazed reverently at his statue atop a 10-ft. pedestal in Gori's main square-one of the last remaining statues of the dictator in the Soviet Union...
...five days of November, impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales at SPB netted nearly $21 million, close to the firm's entire 1967-68 turnover...
...obituary pages. William Doyle, the ebullient Boston-Irish owner of a seven-year-old Manhattan house, who expects to gross $15 million this fiscal year, flies in his own plane to reconnoiter rumored treasures. On a trip to Warrensburg, N.Y., he found a trunkful of letters autographed by five of the signers of the Declaration of Independence...
...sold his thriving 20-year-old carpet plant in Dalton, Ga., in order to concentrate on what had been the couple's consuming interest: collecting French and American impressionists. "We've always been interested in art, and we'd always bought local artists," he explains. "Then, five or six years ago, we just had a yearning for artists who were names in books, fine art, artists who were dead...
...share in it. This is partly because boom conditions create an unreal system of reputation, with most of the benefits going to a handful of stars at the top and scarcely anything to the rest. The American art education system, churning out as many graduate artists every five years as there were people in late 15th century Florence, has in effect created an unemployable art proletariat whose work society cannot "profitably" absorb. Generous tax laws, which enabled collectors to buy low, keep a picture for years and then reap a tax benefit by giving it to a museum...