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...David Modigliani '02, one of Rosenthal's blockmates, said he thinks the group escaped being "Quadded" by participating in a ritual to appease the "Quad. gods." Wednesday night...
...countered by the characters' frequent exhortations to the audience, made especially effective in a small theater like the Loeb Ex. As the play heads towards its catastrophic ending, and Creon receives a come-uppance beyond his wildest nightmares, there is a brief moment in which the General (David Modigliani '02) reflects on the horrors of the Civil War. He describes seeing dead soldiers' bodies on the ground, futilely lamenting that he never expected to see a sight so gruesome. The play's main focus is on the personal misfortunes of the House of Oedipus. Ultimately, though, it reaches...
...public's interest in Vegas," says Wynn, CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc., and the son of a gambler who came to Las Vegas in the 1960s. The biggest stimulus at the Bellagio, of course, is Wynn's $300 million collection of works by, among others, Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns, and sculptures by Giacometti and Brancusi...
FIRM ART Last week came reports that two companies, Lake, a Japanese finance firm, and Reader's Digest, have decided to auction off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art, like the Modigliani to the right. Half of the Fortune 500 have collections of consequence. Among the largest collectors: Equitable, which owns hundreds of works, including murals by Thomas Hart Benton; Pepsico, famed for its sculpture garden with pieces by Henry Moore; Paine Webber, which has works by the likes of Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns; Sara Lee, which just gave some of its best items to museums...
...house had given the Sharp estate a guarantee, undisclosed but somewhere near the low aggregate-sales estimate, which was $59 million. But the whole sale made only $41.2 million, which left the house with a net loss of $10 million to $15 million. Even its star picture--a 1916 Modigliani nude whose rosy skin and cute pubic patch would, one might have thought, rouse the cupidity of any redblooded conglomerateur--failed to reach its $10 million estimate...