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...painters had batting records, that of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, court painter to Philip IV of Spain, would be perfect. Not only did he paint the best official portrait of the 17th century -- the head of the wary, coarse, cunning old Pope Innocent X, in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili collection in Rome -- but he also made what is perhaps the greatest nonmythical, secular painting in all art history: Las Meninas, in the Prado. Neither is in the wonderful show of 38 paintings by Velazquez, about half lent by the Prado, which opens at the Metropolitan Museum...
Amid the brawl for his company, Johnson has remained aloof from most outsiders and workers at RJR Nabisco headquarters in the elegant Galleria complex north of Atlanta. "We don't know what is going on," says an employee. "Some of us are going to lose our jobs, but we don't know who, or where." Feelings of helplessness were hardly confined to the South. Said a 15-year employee at an RJR Nabisco cookie plant in Fair Lawn, N.J.: "When you're at the bottom of the ladder and you got money men at the top, you take...
Strolling, not quite swaying, we made our way down JFK to the Sports Bar (the Galleria, JFK St.). A line of very cold students--all of them male--had formed outside the Square's newest bar, but the attractive bouncer from Tufts let the two of us in quite quickly. Although packed to capacity, a mirrored wall and glass partitions made the bar seem spacious. Several televisions blared different sporting events...
...Kuwaitis own Santa Fe International, a leading oil-drilling company; the Atlanta Hilton hotel; and a controlling interest in the Dallas Galleria, a glittering complex of shops, offices and a hotel. The Kuwaitis are more visible in Europe. They own billions of dollars worth of British stocks, including 15% of the Royal Bank of Scotland and 5% of Trusthouse Forte, a leading hotel chain. On the Continent, Kuwait has invested more than $2 billion in Spanish companies. In West Germany, Kuwait owns 20% of Metallgesellschaft, a mining, metals and plastics company, and 14% of Daimler- Benz, the car manufacturer...
...retail space when it shelled out $94 million, or about $1,000 per square foot, for the Tiffany building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Nissei Realty turned over an estimated $135 million last November for a half share of San Francisco's 38-story Crocker Bank Tower and Galleria shopping center. In December, Sumitomo Life Insurance agreed to pay $145 million, or about $330 per rentable square foot, for an office building under construction in Los Angeles...