Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more about turning a quick profit than about checking on an object's pedigree. Says Volpe: "Everyone in the art market is buying questionable pieces. Most people ask more questions when they buy an automobile...
Carter retreated to Camp David to think. Then he called a press conference. "We will settle this thing once and for all," he smiled. "We will invite them to"−and here he picked up a shiny white object and began tossing it with one hand−"a game of baseball...
...fill in the lacunae in the historical record of one of this century's least pressing but most fascinating enigmas: that ten-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, becoming the object of a very noisy hue and cry in England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story by Co-Scenarist Tynan, are cloche hats, potted palms...
...giant mobiles to hang from the glass roof seem misdirected. Although Wainwright's compositions of oblong chrome and reflecting prisms would be great in Boston-Boston, one wonders what they'll add to the station. Carolos Dorrien's granite wall piece stands nearby, looking strangely uncomfortable for an inanimate object...
...never represent a statement of principle of support; they are only a pragmatic tool to achieve political goals. Indeed, Carter's speedy recognition of the Khomeini-appointed government in Iran followed this very principle. While the U.S. may be uncomfortable with Khomeini's brand of Islamic rule, and should object to such actions as the seizure of the Israeli embassy and the secret trials and executions of pro-Shah officials, the recognition ratifies none of those actions. Instead it marks the awareness of American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that it will lose...