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...BEASTLY FEAST. Hungry Iraqi soldiers have stormed the Kuwait zoo, killing and eating dozens of gazelles, antelope and other mammals. The World Society for the Protection of Animals has reports that some of the zoo's larger predators are roaming the streets and that a child was killed by a lion...
...that to send such things around the world, or even to move them at all, verges on the irresponsible. Yet museums still feel obliged to lend paintings as hostages to others to ensure reciprocal loans. Only this can explain, for instance, why the National Gallery refused to move its Feast of the Gods (the figures by Bellini, the deep and magically sonorous landscape background by his apprentice Titian) a few city blocks to the Phillips Collection's "Pastoral Landscape" show in 1988, whose centerpiece it should have been, but had no compunction about flying it back and forth across...
Invading animals are also a difficult problem. Rats have been hitching rides to the islands on ships for centuries, then escaping into the forests where they feast on nesting birds and their eggs. Local authorities imported mongooses to hunt the rats in 1883. But no one considered that mongooses hunt in the early morning and early evening, when the rats are not out. So the mongooses switched to birds, compounding the problem...
...only objectionable experience on my visit to the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Boston ICA was the piece of red paper stuck on the windshield of my mode of transport that I found upon returning from a three-hour feast of pure visual exhilaration. It seems that in situations like the Mapplethorpe fiasco, everybody has to pay some price...
...1980s were a time of feast and fear for the world's international banking system: an era of globalization and vigorous overseas expansion but also of sharp competitive thrust. Asian banks and increasing numbers of European ones hung OPEN FOR BUSINESS signs abroad, joining the U.S. multinationals that had dominated global finance for decades. Suddenly the Japanese, drawing on their huge national savings pool and enormous trading surpluses, appeared to be the new Masters of the Banking Universe, carving out richer slices of international market share with startling rapidity. The global banking business became an international free...