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...London for ?131.5. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts paid $125,000 for Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Confraternity of Perugia, which was sadly below the house estimate of $200,000. The institute also bought Frans Hals's Man with a Herring for $145,000, more than three times as much as the Ericksons paid for it in 1925. Wildenstein bid a surprising $175,000 for Jean MarcNattier's La Marquise de Baglion, as Flora -an indication that things will be looking up for the Nattier market after the long decline from...
...seems to me that the American people are being tricked into accepting nuclear war as the only solution of the Berlin crisis. The construction of fallout shelters is a red herring being used to engage the attention of the gadget-loving, do-it-yourself, construction-happy American...
Secrecy & Mystery. But the effect of the Chambers-Hiss case was not confined to the sentencing of one man and the vindication of another. During the hearings, President Harry Truman charged that the whole affair was a Republican-plotted "red herring"-and his quip became a political boomerang, evidence that the Democrats were "soft on Communism." Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, insisted stubbornly that he would not "turn his back on Alger Hiss"-and came under political attack that seriously curbed his effectiveness. A young California Congressman named Richard Nixon became a national figure by prying information...
...unexpectedly spirited reaction of the country's newspapers to President Kennedy's suggestion that they censor themselves has in a small way helped to illustrate exactly how much of a red herring his speech to the National Publishers Association actually was. He tried very cleverly to lead the papers away from reflection on their own inadequate and uncritical coverage of U.S. foreign policy in general, the Cuba affair in particular; in a tone of perplexity that blamed neither press nor President for any crises whatever he attempted to distract attention to the far less important question of how much information...
...narrated in a shoulder-shrugging Yiddish tone that is not maintained consistently. In one moment, the narrator sounds like a much-oppressed peasant from the Russian Pale ("Myself, I say, you never know when a pogrom is going to come along. One minute you're in Minsk licking a herring, the next minute you're running for your life."). In the next, he is commenting in the voice of a social historian (The Ladies' Home Journal replaced the Tanach as the authority in household affairs."). Throughout "Lukshin Kugel" the reader is puzzled to determine who is telling the story...