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...mingling of distance, intimacy, lust, humor and spite. In them, the billowy amplitude of Rubens' flesh is sometimes reborn, along with the sardonic affection Reginald Marsh felt for his Coney Island cuties. But the women of the early '50s are his canonical ones-part archaic Ishtar, part Amsterdam hooker and part Marilyn. Their most menacing attribute is their smile, originally cut from a LIFE magazine ad and stuck on; in Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53, there are two smiles, one where it should be, the other arranged like a necklace of teeth around the throat. With such paintings...
...Amsterdam, a gunman carrying a can of gasoline burst into Casa Rosso, a gambling and sex club in the city's red-light district. As horrified guests watched at gunpoint, the man, a former employee, doused the floor and stairs with gasoline. He then shot his pistol into a fuel can, instantly setting the place ablaze. Patrons mobbed exits and jumped from upper-story windows as the fire consumed four 17th century row houses in the brothel and casino complex. The toll at week's end: 13 dead, 25 injured...
...morally debased regime and, therefore, are not properly listed in the IMF statistics. Until 1973, it was public knowledge that Saudi Arabia supplied 25 percent of South Africa's oil. Since 1973, however, South Africa's oil suppliers have been classified. Despite this, the Shipping Research Bureau in Amsterdam, an anti-apartheid research foundation, found out that during 1979 and early 1980 South Africa received oil shipments from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Qutar and the United Arab Emirates...
...Hague giving the Heineken family three days to rustle up a total of about $10 million worth of U.S., French, West German and Dutch currencies. The kidnapers used the code word "eagle" for themselves and "hare" for the policeman who would bring them the booty. Three days later the Amsterdam police placed an ad in a national newspaper declaring their readiness to pay the ransom ("The pasture is green for the hare") and demanding further contact. In reply the kidnapers phoned in a taped message announcing that directions would be left in plastic cups scattered through towns surrounding the inland...
...initial overture fell through because the police lacked proof that the captives were still alive, the cat-and-mouse game grew even more elaborate. One anonymous letter leaked the names of three likely suspects, which led the police to keep watch over a carpenters' yard in a bleak Amsterdam industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through a 120-mile journey...