Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century, watched the Titians, Sassettas and Turners, pried loose from palazzo and stately home by the teamwork of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, disappearing into American museums. "The Japanese are awash in money," says New York's leading dealer in old-master drawings, David Tunick. "And when something really good goes to Japan, you feel it has vanished into an abyss...
...indubitable masterpiece, Van Gogh's Portrait of the Postmaster Roulin, for an undisclosed price, the museum sold and exchanged seven paintings. But this encourages museum trustees to think of the permanent collection as an impermanent one, a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will: not a good omen...
...beaches are among the targets of the three-month-old "defiance campaign" being waged by black activists. But when State President F.W. de Klerk last week called on municipalities throughout the country to integrate their beaches, it was less a response to those protests than another move to make good his election promise of change...
...editors: 'But the editors insist on these subjects,' " says Novak. "The fact is, if you ask readers to pay $22 for a book, you have to reveal new material. Ironically, the better known the person the more they must reveal." Recalls Reagan: "There were tough, difficult times and good times. But I wanted it honest and personal...
...baseball cap. Short fella. Kinda homely. Ears hanging out there like wind spoilers. Talks with a trace of a lisp. Looks like he'd be at home on the showroom floor of any Sears store in Middle America, moving metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves to fish and swap tall tales. Family man. Churchgoer...