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...proto-Expressionist was born. He sounds like De Kooning, but actually he looked more like his idol, Corot, only denser and more fixed: tiny imploded scenes, whose glow and atmospheric subtlety were much admired in their time but can hardly even be assessed now. For in pursuit of jewel-like effects and deep layering of color, Ryder painted "lean over fat," so that slower-drying strata of paint underneath pulled the quicker-drying surface apart. He would slosh abominable messes of varnish on the surface, and pile up the pigment by incessant retouching until the images became quaking pitch lakes...
...annual cost of $317, features descriptions of 10,258 rental mailing lists. The tome does not provide specific names and addresses of customers-in-waiting, but it indicates who owns compiled lists and which rolls include the names of people who responded to mailings. These "response lists" are the jewel in the direct-mail crown. According to marketing lore, if your name is on a response list, chances are good you'll buy again...
...Aura is the crown jewel of 20 hyper-tony Piaget timepieces that will tour 10 U.S. cities. The company has no doubt that shoppers long to see, touch and even buy the watches, although the cheapest model sells for $79,000. "It has been our experience that there has always been a market for the ultimate timepiece, regardless of the economic climate," says Gedalio Grinberg, chairman of the U.S. distributor of Piaget products. The pricey watches may even be a leading indicator of economic conditions. A decade ago, Piaget brought out a $3 million timepiece just in time...
...week Isutani scored the investment equivalent of a hole in one when he agreed to pay an estimated $900 million for the Pebble Beach Co., which operates four golf courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii and a new golf resort in Salzburg, Austria...
...turn into emotional softies when appraising their bosses. But there were few dry eyes at last week's staff meeting after Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor Eugene Roberts Jr., 58, announced that he would retire from the paper that he had transformed from a second-rate daily into the crown jewel of the Knight-Ridder chain. "There were lots of eyes that were swimming and voices that broke," says reporter B.J. Phillips. "Everybody is here because...