Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second Period--3, H, Ted Drury 3 (Jim Coady, C.J. Young) 8:25. Penalties--D, Mike Fehm (holding) 3:15; H, Brian Popiel (elbowing) 10:10; H, Kevan Melrose (cross-checking) 10:51; D, Roger Chiasson (late hit) 10:51; D, Sean Tomaltuy (slashing...
...course, this would have been exactly the feeling of a cultivated Japanese in 1885, watching his cultural patrimony being politely stripped by American collectors, led by Ernest Fenollosa and the "Boston bonzes." The emerging lesson of the late '80s, which is unlikely to change in the '90s, is that America no longer controls the art market to any significant degree. Mostly, it sells. Its buying power is fading fast...
...late 1987 the name of Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
...through financial circles. Last January an Australian finance company approached an auction house in London with the utterly novel idea of packaging an option on Irises, in the event that Dallhold Investments -- the holding company through which Bond owned the picture -- defaulted. The auction house rejected this proposal. In late 1988 Bond himself reportedly tried to pass off Irises to the New York megadeveloper Donald Trump as partial payment on a $180 million deal for the St. Moritz Hotel. Trump, no collector, said the painting was worth only $30 million and turned him down...
...frustrated Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, later told the New York Times that the arrangements his affiliates had made with CNN "must be explored sooner or later." But the NBC affiliates rebuffed Gartner's suggestion. "It's too late for the networks to go back to the old way, when / they were the only ones we associated with," said Bob Jordan, news director of NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento. "Too many affiliates have other partnerships now and are unwilling to give them...