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...G.O.P. gala at the Embarcadero Park, the single most profitable fund raiser Republicans have ever had at a convention. (At that one the G.O.P. took in $6.5 million from assorted contributors, $2 million more than at 1992's largest checkbook jamboree.) One of the busiest hosts was Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. On Wednesday he introduced Jack Kemp to 3,500 big donors at the outdoor gala, an honor he got for raising $2 million. After shaking Van Dongen's hand, the vice-presidential candidate turned to the audience and quipped...
...control of the Senate and the White House's power has been weakened by Iranscam, business finds itself on the defensive. Corporate lobbyists are fighting a bevy of labor-supported bills that might be beneficial to workers but would impose new costs and burdens on corporations. Says Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (N.A.W.): "It is real warfare...
Recognizing the challenge they face, business groups have mounted a full- court defense. Van Dongen's N.A.W. can delve into a computer bank that lists 10,000 members who have ranked how well they know legislators on a scale from "slightly" to "very well." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, is organizing a mammoth letter-writing campaign to Congress. Its message: the raft of legislation would drive up business costs while American companies are already losing markets to foreign competitors...
...exhibitionist style cloys, because as pure documentary F for Fake has such potential. Welles tracks deHory down in Ibiza, a picturesque Spanish island, where the forger has given up his life of crime for a jolly semi-retirement. (He no longer sells his fakes--Picassos, Modiglianis, Matisses and Van Dongen--but still occupies a villa provided by an art dealer who has turned a handsome middleman's profit on deHory's imitations...
After 1908 Derain pruned his color to achieve more weighty and old-masterly effects, and was never to regain the same energy. Vlaminck plummeted into coarse self-parody, Dufy tended more and more to crank out pretty little furniture-pictures, and Van Dongen simply fell apart, becoming-in his meaningless virtuosity and appeal to cafe society-an Andy Warhol with red corpuscles. The brief moment of Fauvism was over; naturally, since it was synonymous with youth itself...