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...educated person has to have good manners," said Rosovsky. "He has to be able to distinguish between what is junk and what has quality...
...time Dale Turner (Gordon) gets to Paris to play an open-ended gig at the Blue Note in 1959, he is both a bop legend and a physical wreck. Too much booze and junk, so much energy spent to expand the boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight...
...that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed up with a couple of Withington's helpers. As the auction hands turned the chest over so that Partridge could check its construction, Hammitt laughed and said, "It's junk, it's all new. Go home, Jack." Partridge, an Englishman, haw-hawed delightedly. "Yes," he said. "Dreadful stuff. Such a pity...
Marble, wood and bronze remained fundamental materials, but they were used in unorthodox ways; and in addition, a sculptor could use any kind of junk, from cardboard, tin and pine boards (the stuff of Picasso's and Laurens's cubist constructions) to the wire and celluloid favored by constructivists, the steel plates and boiler ends forged by Smith, and so on down to rocks, twigs, burlap, twine or even the artist's own dung, which, canned and labeled by the Italian Piero Manzoni in 1961, provided a nastily prophetic comment on fetishism in late modern art. On its road away...
...million dollars for the moviemaking studio and its assets, especially a rich library of some 3,600 films that includes such gems as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. In the process the Atlanta tycoon had to raise nearly $1.2 billion, mostly by issuing high- interest junk bonds, thereby pushing TBS's total debt to nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes due Sept. 15. Will Turner be able to keep his head above water? His subordinates think so. "We've always lived close to the edge," says TBS Vice President Robert...