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Apart from a Shang bronze and a little Rembrandt self-portrait etching, nothing in the haul could be resold on the open market, or even in its shadow line. With the Vermeer, resale is all but inconceivable, although famous stolen paintings do sometimes get sold: the very picture that named the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet's Impression: Rising Sun, was stolen from the Marmottan Museum in Paris by armed robbers in 1985 and is believed to be in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Boston Theft ReflectsThe Art World's Turmoil | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...screen. The who?, you say. Then you haven't been paying attention. The Turtles -- four wisecracking, pizza-guzzling reptile masters of the martial arts -- are already the biggest animated adventure act to hit television since Ghostbusters cartoons. Kids adore their hip and slightly naughty sense of humor ("Let's haul shell out of here"). "I like Michaelangelo because he's a smooth dude, a party animal," says Michael Serio, a 7-year-old fan from East Haven, Conn., describing his favorite of the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lean, Green and on the Screen | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

With that exception, we display the flag because we are proud to be Southerners. As Southerners, I see it as our duty to educate those persons who are misguided about affection for the flag, not to acquiesce and submit to their desires and haul the flag down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Surrendered; I Didn't | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Then again, maybe John Madden, the rumpled gent who whoops the game for CBS, is right about mud. Why not haul a few dozen tons of good, dirty dirt into the Superdome, the way they do for those tractor pulls that ESPN broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...December about taking over the network's programming division. (The negotiations fell through.) Perhaps because of their clout, Grand has been given a near indestructible time period: the half-hour following Cheers on NBC's powerful Thursday-night schedule. That means Grand is probably in for the long haul -- good, bad or indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Banging Away at the Piano Works | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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