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...presence was a talisman to the small New York avant-garde. It was the gift of Hitler. Like many of the Surrealists--whose work he cordially detested--Mondrian had fled to refuge in New York in 1940 as the Nazi threat to "degenerate artists" such as himself became inescapably plain. The mere arrival of this diffident and somewhat reclusive man symbolized the passing of modernist leadership from Paris to Manhattan. Yet unlike the Surrealists, he had few American followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately...
...maintaining that GOPAC was involved only in state races. As a result, the commission contends, GOPAC was able to keep secret the names of its donors and how it spent its money. Last week the Washington Post reported that in 1986 Gingrich wrote to a prospective Tennessee contributor making plain his intent to use the group as the all-purpose engine behind a Republican takeover of Congress. An article in the New Yorker, meanwhile, stated a GOPAC official said the group either contributed or funneled large chunks of money to 1994 congressional candidates. If the contributions were direct, they...
...firm's back office--a combination that enabled him to conceal the true nature of the transactions. But unlike Leeson, who has remained in a German jail while Singapore continues its effort to extradite him, Iguchi traded nothing more exotic than U.S. Treasury securities. They are "as plain-vanilla a financial instrument as you can find," notes Marc Cohen, managing director at the Hermes Capital hedge-fund firm. That very simplicity should have made the fraud relatively easy to spot...
Even before the verdict, it was plain just how passionately the Simpson case pressed upon the sore spots of the American racial psyche. On Thursday Bill Clinton said he was "concerned" about Cochran's play to racial feeling in his final arguments: "I hope the American people will not let this become some symbol of the larger racial issue in our country...
...poverty of means then available to an American painter, Copley had created a counterpart to the plain, didactic neoclassical style that Jacques-Louis David used in his portrait of the Lavoisiers: earnestness, probity, equality, set forth within the frame of marriage, an Ideal Republic of two. In England he would paint more elaborate images than this--but none more close knit and concentrated...