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...high end of the market, driven by Japanese fixations on Renoir and Van Gogh, had ceased to pull the rest. A week earlier, Sotheby's contemporary auction was a flop, with overall sales totaling little more than $55 million against estimates of about $86 million to more than $112 million. The prices of "name" artists, from Willem de Kooning to Eric Fischl and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were humiliatingly trounced, although a few -- Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn -- saw new levels set for their work...
...sport's highest payroll, including free-agent flop Mark Davis, has failed to produce a team strong enough to challenge the powerhouse Oakland...
...born De Laurentiis produced a handful of successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...
Even now, every American response to Soviet reforms is in some way a product of that Cold War view. If it isn't a victory of us over them, it's a flip-flop of that, an enlightened cry for a move of us toward them. Even as the chroniclers of current events proclaim the Cold War to be over, our mental worlds are all still marked by an East-West split...
Nonetheless, Administration officials confide that so far as they are aware, Bush is doing only tactical planning, concentrating on getting through the summit without a major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What...