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Blake (Alec Baldwin) makes a cameo, bringing in his steel briefcase the old themes from "Downtown": "Closers get more leads (names to call on) and losers get out." Blake has no mercy for leftovers like Levene. He delicately encourages those who don't like it to "get the fuck out" and taunts those who stay with the fact that his watch costs more than each of their cars. If you can't sell his trashy property deals, you're nobody to Blake...
...work of Jusepe de Ribera, whose masterpieces are displayed in a new exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the very antitype of the great Matisse show 30 blocks downtown at the Museum of Modern Art: darkness, Baroque realism and a relentless admixture of piety with sadistic guignol, all done at the highest level of skill and conviction. Surprisingly, given the enormous reputation Ribera had in his day, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever held in America, or for that matter in Europe (it was previously shown in Naples and Madrid...
ROBERT MCBRIDE, 29, KILLED THREE WHITE WOMEN with a car bomb outside a Durban pub. Barend Strydom, 27, gunned down seven blacks in downtown Pretoria. Once condemned to death, McBride and Strydom walked free last week when President F.W. de Klerk released 150 prisoners in a deal to entice Nelson Mandela's African National Congress back to the negotiating table. Most of the convicts had been serving time for violent acts in the antiapartheid cause, but Strydom's release was an obvious sop to whites: as leader of the ultra-right White Wolves, he had become a hero for some...
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city's downtown district, costing insurers $300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: $1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined $700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing $1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty...
...that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced that it would soon begin dismantling its $57 billion financial and merchandising empire...