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Thieves usually fence their loot for 5% of its "real" value. This robbery will yield nothing like that. The only professional thing about it was its speed. As art thieves, specialists in heisting old paintings under the best conditions for resale or ransom, last week's pair were bunglers. They cut some canvases off their support stretchers, a hasty amateur act that enables the painting to be rolled up but severely damages it by cropping and cracks the old dry paint like a potato crisp when it is rolled, thus causing big problems of restoration. (When another Vermeer, The Letter...
Baldwin did TV, regional theater and Broadway (Loot). He worked hard and wide; he was everywhere and invisible at the same time. In 1988 he appeared in widely varying guises in four substantial movies: Beetlejuice, Married to the Mob, Working Girl and Talk Radio. In this movie equivalent of repertory theater Baldwin didn't make a big splash -- it was more a series of pleasant ripples -- but the roles enabled him to parade his versatility and apprentice with top directors. He insinuated his presence rather than asserting...
...confusion, Ceausescu and his wife vanished. First reports said that they had helicoptered from their palace to the airport, where they boarded a plane heavily laden with loot. Then they were reported to be traveling by car. There was speculation that they had fled abroad, but if so, only three countries seemed likely to accept them: China, which also sends tanks against its own people; North Korea, where dictator Kim Il Sung maintains a cult as extravagant as Ceausescu's; and Iran, where the Rumanian despot last week placed a wreath on the Ayatullah Khomeini's grave. At week...
...expect prices to be weak. The Resolution Trust Corp., set up to sell off the holdings of hundreds of failed S&Ls, is pledged to avoid triggering a price crash. Yet this is an arm of the same Government, after all, that actually lost money auctioning off confiscated drug loot...
...pretend to be unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real men don't need air conditioning. We can pretend that we believe it is wrong to loot the earth for the benefit of a single generation of a single species. We can pretend to care about our children's world...