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...shiny new SUVs, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme religious leader, conducts himself with the modesty of a small-town mullah. He receives visitors in spare, undecorated offices in downtown Tehran and often runs meetings seated on the floor and wearing a plain black robe. Billboards with his portrait are ubiquitous in the capital, depicting Khamenei more as a rumpled civil servant than a revolutionary, with thick glasses and rough, checkered scarf. "When you talk to him, you feel you're dealing with a worldly man," says a senior Iranian official. "And everything is in his hands, now more...
...MILLION Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Dr. Gachet...
...late Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, at Christie's, London. The sale of over 800 items had been predicted to make only $5.5 million $21,000 Price paid for the original artwork from a 1949 TIME cover of Princess Margaret. The portrait had been valued...
...stage curtain watched over by the Queen's portrait and a packet of sparklers are the simple sense-memory props that begin the journey: we are backstage at an end-of-year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold...
...DIED. Arnold Newman, 88, who snapped 49-cent portraits in his native Philadelphia before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman...