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...scene that confronts Poppa brings a tear to his eye. "I almost thought you guys wouldn't be able to bring it off this time without resorting to something illegal," he muses. "But now I know that out there somewhere, Morey Amsterdam is smiling...
Currently it is the nation's top-grossing film, having run up $62 million in receipts in six weeks. Wheeling as usual, Begelman set up a distribution deal for Robert Mitchum's new film, The Amsterdam Kill, and signed Robert Redford to star in Electric Horseman...
...acquisitive urge, the desire to complete and catalogue a series, shows early in some collectors-and in none earlier than Frits Lugt, the century's greatest scholar and collector of Dutch drawings. In 1892, when Lugt was eight and the other little boys in his native Amsterdam were swapping beetles and cigarette cards, he transformed a room into the "Museum Lugtius" with a sign on the door reading "Open when the Director is at home." By twelve, he started a fully annotated catalogue of Netherlandish drawings and, even more surprisingly, kept at it for three years...
...instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence...
...President made two key alterations in the CAB proposal. The board had recommended that National be allowed to fly only to Paris; the President added Amsterdam and Frankfurt. More important, the CAB had decided by a 4-to-1 vote that Pan Am be chosen to open service on the potentially lucrative route from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. Its reason: Pan Am, which only in the past two years has begun to earn a profit after years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave...