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...Gulf Stream, moving this apprehension from animal to man. A black sailor lies on the afterdeck of a dismasted sloop, adrift and rudderless in the deep Caribbean blue. Enormous sharks circle the boat. Their ominousness is reinforced by the zone of black water from which they rise. (The catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently by, and we see the waterspout...
Martha Stewart's face is everywhere but on a Wanted poster: in her magazine, on four videos and a dozen books, on TV (twice a day), unofficially on the Internet, at K Mart, and in her catalog (Martha by Mail). In an interview, conducted as she shuttled among her farm in Westport, Connecticut, her two Hampton beach houses on New York's Long Island and her Manhattan office, she says her aim is nothing less than to take over Christmas. "It is our intention to own areas in communication. I don't mean to sound egomaniacal, but Perry Como used...
...subject matter, making it worthy of the effort it requires. Sure it's easier to identify with Gloria Steinem, who admits she once lived in an apartment for four years before realizing the oven didn't work. By making the impossible purchasable--at least in magazine and catalog form--Stewart is now simply Martha: cooking, sewing, gilding, planting, wallpapering and painting her way into every corner of your house--and your life. And Christmas? You'd better watch...
Dozens of people tendered bids, and countless bought copies of the $90 hardcover catalog and $45 softcover catalog describing items for sale. That desire for material proof indicates that the Onassis estate auction confirms what was proved by the reaction to the death of Mrs. Onassis two years ago--that the fascination with John F. Kennedy '40 and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and with the early 1960s, will endure well into the next century...
Enter the IRS. It presumably already has collected 55% (New York State probably took another 5%) in estate taxes on the fair market value of the auctioned items. Presuming that value was stated to be somewhere around the Sotheby's catalog figures, the tax collectors can argue that the auction results proved it to be a wild underestimate and press for 60% of a far higher figure, though perhaps not the whole $34.5 million (which in any case will be reduced some 12% by the buyers' premiums and sales commissions for Sotheby's). Alternately, the Kennedys might pay capital-gains...