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...then there was the dirt. In the late 19th century, when curators were presumably less anal than they are today, dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare...
...controversial right-wing Israeli who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israeli territory was gunned down in Manhattan on November 5 by El Sayyid A. Nosair, an American of Egyptian ancestry. Kahane's death at the hands of an Arab lent respectablity to the man and his racist hatred...
Hamilton, a close friend of Imelda Marcos' in the 1980s, testified that a Marcos associate gave him $5.5 million in 1983 for an abortive film project. Hamilton returned the money to a Hong Kong bank that proved to have ties to Marcos. In another transaction, a Marcos crony lent Hamilton $6 million, including $4 million that was secured by the actor's Beverly Hills estate. Hamilton later sold the home to a buyer close to Marcos. While Hamilton's lawyer conceded that his client may have been a "tool for someone," he argued that the actor "would not knowingly participate...
...widespread revulsion with Congress has lent spice to an otherwise boring midterm campaign. Public-opinion polls confirm that a cynical electorate has not been paying close attention to the race. But the anti-Washington mood has made some contests closer than expected -- and added some distracting...
...needed fee income and needed to do something clever lest they go out of business the slow way, which is by starving to death. And so real estate lending became the favored commercial- bank asset. And as with any asset favored by bankers, it suffered a depreciation because they lent so much that they helped create a glut...