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...levels. Earlier this month a 1923 Picasso painting titled Birdcage was auctioned for a record $15.4 million, only to be topped four days later by the sale of the 1901 Motherhood for $24.8 million. Then last week a 1905 gouache titled Acrobat and Young Harlequin was sold at a London auction for $38.4 million, a record for a 20th century painting. The buyer was identified as Akio Nishino, head of fine arts for Tokyo's Mitsukoshi department store. Only two other canvases, Van Gogh's Irises ($53.9 million) and Sunflowers ($39.9 million) have brought more...
...Brand worked at the Wall Street Journal, where as a science reporter he won an American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award for stories on protein research and artificial intelligence. After a few years of helping edit the paper's front page, he went to London as a Journal correspondent. Among his assignments was a visit to Siberia to report on Soviet science. He joined TIME as a senior editor in 1983, where one of his first duties was editing a cover article on the dangers of cholesterol. Eighteen months ago, Brand returned to his first...
...part, Gorbachev has already traveled to Geneva, Reykjavik and Washington to meet Ronald Reagan and has made visits to Paris, London and New Delhi, as well as the "fraternal countries" of Eastern Europe. Next year he is expected to go back to France, visit West Germany for the first time and travel to Beijing for the first summit between Soviet and Chinese leaders since...
...Samson seems slow to catch on to the freeze-out, it is partly because he has been distracted by Fiona's replacement. Lovely Gloria also works at Secret Service (London Central), and is more than 20 years younger than Deighton's middle-aged hero. As in previous Deighton thrillers, the pace quickens once the cool atmospheres and the cast of characters are established. Curious Bernie learns he is being used, but the stronger his suspicions, the more forceful are his bosses' warnings to lay off. At one point, he is ordered across the Atlantic and the American continent...
...London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro, Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...