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Warhol's early works were the ones that mattered. He began as a commercial artist, became for a time (between about 1962 and 1968) a fine artist with something akin to genius and then lapsed back into a barely disguised form of commercial art. His sense of timing, his grip on how to give an image graphic clout, and his fixation on style as an end in itself all came out of his years of advertising and display work during the '50s for I. Miller, Lord & Taylor, Glamour and Vogue. By the end of this period he was rich, professionally...
OPEC has plenty of plans for a comeback but is having no luck making them work. Only three months ago, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries seemed to be regaining a grip on world oil prices. The group's agreement in December on a 7% production cut, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, managed to push prices even higher than OPEC's goal of $18 per bbl. But by last week it was clear that the group's clout had slipped once again, as world oil prices dipped as low as $15 per bbl. Several OPEC countries appeared...
...government or keep its promises to curb the kind of corruption that helped finish off the Liberals. Mulroney, 47, has surrounded himself with friends chosen for loyalty rather than expertise. He has never developed or articulated a national agenda for Canada or shown himself to have a tight grip on the reins of government. Although Canada's growth rate of 3.3% for the past two years is second only to that of Japan, the government has problems. Time after time, major decisions, like a highly publicized promise to restructure Canada's tax system, have been delayed...
...decided to oust the president of Brazil's central bank, Fernando Bracher, who was under criticism for letting interest rates rise too high. His replacement was Francisco Gros, an economist trained at Columbia University and a friend of Finance Minister Funaro's. The appointment of Gros strengthened Funaro's grip on financial policy, but the minister has yet to convince foreign bankers that he has a viable program for straightening out the economy...
...horizon, however. Yesterday the 60-day cease-fire with Communist rebels formally ended. While right wing members of the military were no doubt appeased by the renewal of violence, centrist hopes of peaceful, broad-spectrum political participation were crushed. Further polarization of Philippine politics can only weaken Aquino's grip on the military...