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...major new biography by Jeffrey Meyers has appeared, as well as a memoir by his son Jack Hemingway. Jack and some other relatives have lately formed Hemingway Ltd., which will market the family name for use on such items as fishing rods and safari clothes. Jack has also lent Papa's name, grotesquely, to a line of shotguns...
...secrets piled on top of secrets lent a lurid glow that was not in the paintings. And the Wyeths, inadvertently or intentionally, added to the titillation. His decision to try to protect the privacy of Helga made the suspicious more so. And Art & Antiques reports that when Betsy Wyeth was asked what the works were about and why her husband had kept them secret, she took a long, pensive pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model...
...been battered by Japanese imports, was saved from a budget crisis in 1982 when the Mitsubishi Bank agreed to guarantee $500 million worth of the state's bonds. Almost no project is too large or too small for the yen-laden financiers. Last year the Bank of Tokyo lent $5 million to a group of New York developers who were building an office complex in a run-down section of the Bronx...
Although Soviet museums have lent their exhibitions to U.S. galleries before, "this one is a novelty because the works are done by Russian artists, such as Ripin, Shishkin and Kandinsky, whereas every other exchange consisted of European artists' work exhibited in Russian galleries," she said...
...always finding some family or someone that needed help and that we could help, and yet we were poor . . . I think back on all the places along the line where somebody stepped out of line and helped--and it's always been that way--the people that lent a hand at the time when you needed a hand...