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...have been made from metal. The artist who clearly had the biggest impact on Magritte, turning him toward fantasy and irrational images, was Giorgio de Chirico. And even then Magritte couldn't find a way to use De Chirico's unique scenography until he learned about collage from Max Ernst...
...litigation stems from the epic savings and loan scandal. Accounting firms, along with lawyers and others, face thousands of lawsuits by investors and government regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Accountants' financial liability in S&L cases could exceed $9 billion, not counting compensatory damages. Last week Ernst & Young agreed to pay $63 million to settle claims that its negligence helped S&L honcho Charles Keating Jr. defraud some 23,000 investors in Lincoln Savings & Loan. The settlement came two weeks after the largest U.S. accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, paid $22 million for fraud claims arising from the same...
...firms can expect to be sued in connection with many of the past decade's financial scandals. A notable example: the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which investigators shut down last July after it was found to be a virtual supermarket of illegal services. American firms Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse are being investigated for their part in managing B.C.C.I.'s books; both could face suits. Coopers & Lybrand is coming under similar scrutiny for its role as auditor for the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who apparently looted some of his companies in the months before his mysterious...
...paid more than $50 million in claims before folding. Another major failure could be imminent, some analysts believe. The average Big Six firm has total capital of nearly $3 billion, but in light of recent damage awards, even that amount could be eroded. Of the Big Six, Ernst & Young may be the most exposed because of its focus on the financial industry. The ^ New York City firm audited about one-fifth of all recently failed banks...
...marked the transition of American art from the Abstract Expressionism of the '40s and '50s to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His abstract canvases of the late 1960s, replete with real brooms, rulers and kitchen utensils, recall the iconography of Surrealists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst...