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...Cohn's arrest last week, for conspiracy to import heroin and cocaine and for distributing both drugs, did not quite shock his friends. Cohn, 37, who wrote the magazine article on which the film Saturday Night Fever was based, led a night-crawling, drug-charged life in Manhattan. Said his lawyer, Andrew Maloney: "Mr. Cohn is no more than what too many other people are these days, an abuser of controlled substances. But he's not a trafficker." The Drug Enforcement Administration, after a five-month investigation that included hundreds of wiretapped telephone conversations, claims otherwise. Accused along...
...year-old Literature Department showed the lowest rate of acceptance with only 18 of 30 applicants being admitted according to Department Chairman Dorrit Cohn. But Cihn stressed that more students will be accepted in the fall as part of the department's planned annual expansion...
Marjorie B. Cohn, who works as a conservator of works on paper; explains that many of these pigments have not been produced for hundreds of years. One of these is what Cohn calls the "Mummy" Pigment--a murky brown color that 19th century English painters produced by grinding up the bones and wrapplings of Egyptian mummies...
Surprisingly, it is 20th century works that pose the greatest problems in conservation. The poor composition of modern pigments has reduced light-fastedness and made colors impermanent. Many modern paintings require a great deal of work, because, Cohn says, artists lack an understanding of the materials they work with...
...Cohn recalls that one artist called her and said she loved to paint on brown paper bags. "Don't do it," Cohn told the caller. "Nobody's going to appreciate you in a hundred years...