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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Warren Beatty

Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat

John Travolta

Harvey Fierstein

Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith

William F. Buckley, Jr.

John Paul II

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Chuck Berry

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Muhammad Ali - Fist

Ralph Ellison

Muhammad Ali - Hand on Chin

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Merce Cunningham

China's Great Leap Outward

Anatoli Borisovich Shcharansky

Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque

Richard Nixon

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King Fahd

NATO: Getting Tough

Steve Cauthen

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

Kiss and Sell

Menachem Begin

Chaos in Italy

Jerome Robbins

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