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...last scene of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. John le Carre's bleak and entirely believable novel was published in 1963, only two years after the East German regime built the Wall. Since then, Le Carre's surviving operatives and those of Len Deighton, another notable English spymaster, have made dodgy livings evading Vopos at the Wall, armed with little but false passports and the turned-up collars of their raincoats...
Luckily for Deighton, there is no sign of change in his narrative's other engine of mischief, the mole-ridden, class-clotted English intelligence apparatus. A considerable part of the fun of the author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...
Speaking at Sanders Theater, Ashbery, a professor of English at the City University of New York, read several excerpts from Beddoes as part of the lecture entitled "Olives and Anchovies: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes...
Auction has transformed the very nature of the art sale. In 1983 the old English firm of Sotheby's was taken over by A. Alfred Taubman, American conglomerator, real estate giant and collector. The deal had to be approved by Britain's Monopolies and Mergers Commission. At the commission hearings, Taubman declared that he would be "very concerned" if the public ever got the idea that Sotheby's was centered anywhere but Britain, and that the "traditional nature of the business and of the services offered would be changed as little as possible." Request approved...
...Dallhold, Sotheby's and two Hong Kong corporations. (This conflicts with Sotheby's insistence that it had, and has, no ownership of any kind in Irises, only a lien on the painting.) And on checking the insurance, the lawyers found that no premium had been paid and that the English insurers considered themselves not liable for Irises. Asked about this, Sotheby's CEO Michael Ainslie says, "That is news to me. It was certainly in force according to our communication with the insurers...