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...takes to enter New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Feb. 18 is nerve and a $1,000 filing fee. Among the record 62 candidates who have rushed in where Mario Cuomo feared to tread...
Most of my friends did not believe that I was going to box. One friend went so far as to remind me that I am a peaceful person who hates pain. No biggie. I signed up, term-billed the Harvard Boxing Club fee and got ready for practice...
...abstract painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was the pride of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum before a vandal slashed it in 1986. At the time, the painting was valued at $3.1 million. Last August, after U.S. art restorer Daniel Goldreyer repaired the damage for a fee of $300,000, Who's Afraid was again put on display. Now Dutch art experts are seeing red. Amsterdam art historian Ernst van de Wetering has charged that Goldreyer covered the entire canvas using a roller rather than reproducing Newman's brushstrokes...
...July, the Vietnam vet exorcised his demons by portraying the war as a rite of passage -- to fratricide. In Talk Radio he suggested that the penalty for a showman's reckless truth telling was to be killed by his audience. Jim Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough, Stone's tortured artistic mission -- dispensing downers to a movie public famously addicted to escapism -- has its upside. He pours so much dramatic juice into the hemlock blender that folks go to his films, and official...
...year in a row, the home-furnishing chain is offering its Rent-a-Tree program to American customers. Conceived in Europe during the 1970s and introduced in the company's seven U.S. stores as they opened, it works like this: for $20 -- a $10 deposit and a $10 rental fee -- and a signed lease agreement, a customer can walk out with a fresh 6-to-10-ft. Douglas fir from Pennsylvania. Last year the program was a resounding success: 20,000 trees were leased. IKEA expects to rent 30,000 this year. As a bonus this year, customers at most...