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...Japanese stock market that began in 1990, when the bloated Nikkei average plummeted from nearly 39,000 to less than 15,000 in 2 1/2 years. Then there are recollections of the Great Crash itself, which have become part of America's memory. "People start thinking of the '20s and '30s," says author and retired fund manager Peter Lynch, "and almost everyone seems to have had an Uncle Louie who lost everything and ended up selling pencils...
...main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents...
...seemed dull and overexposed. Nobody could love and only a hurricane could budge the red mobile that hangs, like a glider beefed up to the size of a DC-3, from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful Tightrope, 1937, with its wire personages balancing on a string between two balks of wood...
...Giardi (2), Tedrow, BPs Harvard 2, BU 1. Len Harvard 10, BU 11, 20s Hill, Giardi, Madden, Donato. 3B: None. HR: Morgan, SSt Hill, Morgan, Donste, Auflero OSt None. Harvard IP N BR BS SO Alien, W (2-0) 9 10 1 1 2 8 BU IP N BR BS SO Goldstein, L (1-5) 0.2 6 8 5 0 0 Anselmo 3.1 5 2 2 1 1 Brown 3 4 3 3 1 0 Cohen 0 0 0 0 1 0 Millstein...
...reputation for skepticism. One doesn't want to be thought of as a cadre or a Moonie, like those absurd Reaganites of the early- to mid-1980s. Nor does one want to be associated with the real Clintonite swooners, not all of whom are youths in their 20s...