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Pontifell uses only 100 percent rag paper, which he says feels something like linen. He binds many of his editions in Moroccan calfskin with gilt tooling, and this year acquired an old press from the Boston Museum of Printing...
...Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace...
Gorbachev discussed the Soviet Union's economic reforms later in the week with a gilt-edged delegation of American businessmen from 15 of the country's largest firms, who had gone to Moscow with Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher. Gorbachev hinted that the Soviet Union was prepared to open its doors wider to the outside world, noting, "We are ready to draw foreign, including U.S., investments on mutually beneficial terms." The Shatalin plan goes further: instead of the old system of joint ventures, foreign companies would have the right to acquire 100% ownership...
...surge was led by Batman, which cost $50 million to produce but brought in $251 million at the domestic wickets to rank as the fourth all-time movie hit. Not far behind -- at $197 million, ninth on the all-time list -- was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a gilt-edged sequel. These successes seemed to validate the rules that Hollywood likes to play by: bet big to win big; and if it worked before, do it again...
...exhibit's three rooms are arranged in rough chronological order, beginning with earlier 19th-century works. Traditional landscapes, by artists such as Inness, sit in heavy, gilt frames that line the walls of the first room. Although serenely beautiful, their muted tones are somewhat uninspiring...