Word: art
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once, according to one disgruntled creditor, Straw rented a jet to deliver a check: it bounced. Authorities say Straw may face charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud. But in the meantime, his bankruptcy has left the art world's faith in itself considerably shaken...
Prices of other precious metals such as platinum and palladium have also soared, as have those of diamonds, pearls, stamps, art and antiques. In the past month silver has risen 65%, while gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf...
Schlesinger enriches Yanks' conventional plot machinations with fine atmospheric details and fetching performances. The movie's locations include quaint shops and pubs, foggy, blacked-out streets, a glorious art deco movie palace and enough green pastures to make even an Irishman go dizzy. Most of the cast accomplish the not inconsiderable feat of standing out against the colorful backdrops. Though Gere at times slips into self-conscious mannerisms, he makes his character, a mess sergeant from Arizona, an appealing innocent abroad. Devane is a charming commanding officer, despite his disconcerting tendency to sound like Jack Nicholson. Both Eichhorn...
Cannibals and Missionaries is a very busy book. A committee of leading liberals is anxiously trying to get to pre-Ayatullah Iran to investigate charges that SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, tortures political prisoners. On the same Air France flight, a handful of rich American art collectors are bustling to the same destination for a look at what's new in Persian knickknacks. Neither group gets very far because the most active passengers of all are a team of hijackers-two Arabs and two young, middle-class Dutch radicals of the Baader-Meinhof persuasion...
...demand and get a NATO helicopter to lift them and their hostages to a comfortably furnished farmhouse in Flevoland, one of the large areas that the industrious Hollanders have reclaimed from the sea. The house becomes the stage where this incongruous assembly play out their views on politics, religion, art and morality...