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...Only the size of cartoonists' egos. Nowadays political commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor's name on his butt went a long way in a public's imagination. Our political power today is illusionary. A Johnny Carson monologue is today's real influence brokerage...
...raiders have often been victims of their success. Fancying themselves managers as well as marauders, they built huge but shaky empires that rested on debt. Result: their vast borrowings at sky-high interest rates left companies ranging from TWA to Allied department stores awash in red ink. "Many of the raiders' problems are self-inflicted," says Stuart Bruchey, a professor of economic history at the Columbia University Business School. "They jump into businesses that they don't understand, and expect to jump out with a quick profit. But they end up getting badly bogged down...
...MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...
...with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment through Buddhism, often reflecting the contrast between the serenity found within the walls of the monastery and the turmoil of the outside world. The scroll entitled "Landscape," from the 15th century, exemplifies this conflict, combining a short composition with a delicate pen-and-ink sketch of a mountainside in a long, narrow tankaku format...
...should one suppose that these are dreaming connoisseurs who have just relinquished the ink block and the brush to dabble in the art of the namban, or round-eyed barbarian. Shigeki Kameyama, representing the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo, last week bought, among other things, Picasso's The Mirror at $26.4 million. The week before, he had also purchased De Kooning's Interchange at $20.68 million and a Brice Marden drawing at $500,000 at Sotheby's. Kameyama is known to other dealers as "Oddjob," after Goldfinger's hat-flinging chauffeur...