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...million desk. The mahogany masterpiece was no curlicued Versailles settee or crested English bureau. It was a stately secretary of distinctly American block-and-shell design, crafted in 1760 by the Goddard-Townsend cabinetmakers of Newport, R.I. "For years, Europeans have given us an inferiority complex," says furniture dealer Harold Sack, 78, who bought the desk for an anonymous client, believed to be Texas billionaire Robert Bass. "To finally see American furniture taken as an important art form is enormously gratifying...
...Donald Sack, grandson of the firm's founder, believes that "if any more pieces break the $1 million mark, the Japanese may well get interested." As prices have risen, the buyers' profile has changed. "Doctors used to be our customers, but they can't afford the furniture anymore," says Harold. "Now our customers are educated Americans who don't survive on an income; rather, they have large sums of capital from the sale of a company or real estate." The most celebrated collector is Bill Cosby, who includes reproductions of Early American furniture on the set of his television show...
...typical introduction: "I'm Betty and my husband Harold was just sworn in as the Undersecretary to the Council of the Subcommittee to investigate mail fraud. He was responsible for the arrest of 300 illegal catalogue delivery services last week...
Certainly every disease has its lobby. But AIDS is the first deadly epidemic to strike an already organized political constituency, the gay-rights movement, which began with a fundamental distrust of mainstream society, including organized medicine. The AIDS lobby, says Columbia law school professor Harold Edgar, "is independent of and really indifferent to the interests of the scientific establishment." AIDS lobbyists have often been motivated by fear and anger about public indifference, or even hostility, to their terrible problem. AIDS activism "has to do with racism and homophobia," says Nesline of ACT UP. "What's new is that queers...
...fights for dissidents, criticizes Thatcherism and dodges Fleet Street attacks in her activist life with Harold Pinter...