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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Wednesday night, Picasso's 1905 Au Lapin Agile was widely expected to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...
There are, according to Sotheby's CEO Michael Ainslie, about 500 people alive today who might fork out more than $25 million for a work of art. Au Lapin Agile could go, said rumor, to $60 million. But in the end, publishing magnate Walter Annenberg bought it for $40.7 million, and two or three people clapped. It was the third most expensive work of art ever sold at auction...
Prices vary from 85 cents for an eight-ounce cup of coffee to $2.10 for Cappuccino. The Coffee Connection in the Garage offers identical prices, though those of Au Bon Pain, Express and Croissant du Jour are lower...
DESPITE the tragedies which pursue Jasmine--one character says to her, "you are a tornado. You're leaving a path of destruction behind you."--there is a lot of love and warmth coursing through this tale. As an undocumented au pair girl in New York, she adopts the name Jase and becomes part of her first American family--Wylie and Taylor and their daughter Duff...
When Amy Wilentz first visited Haiti in 1986, she expected to find a land terrorized by President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and his dreaded Tontons Macoutes. As it happened, she landed at Port-au-Prince Airport three days before Duvalier was hustled off to exile in France. Instead of a country bowed under tyranny, Wilentz found one struggling with the uncertainties of revolution...