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Apart from a Shang bronze and a little Rembrandt self-portrait etching, nothing in the haul could be resold on the open market, or even in its shadow line. With the Vermeer, resale is all but inconceivable, although famous stolen paintings do sometimes get sold: the very picture that named the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet's Impression: Rising Sun, was stolen from the Marmottan Museum in Paris by armed robbers in 1985 and is believed to be in Japan...
Ultimately, the problem with any would-be intimate White House portrait isn't the presence of cameras. It's the forbidding landscape itself. This has been noted by Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who also gave Bush many of his best lines (notably "a kinder, gentler nation"). In her recently published memoir What I Saw at the Revolution, Noonan says the White House often seems, even to insiders, to be bright and grand, all majestic spit and polish. But behind the scenes, it is "intrigue and betrayal" and hardball politics...
Lukanov learned of the honor we planned to bestow on him when one of our photographers requested a portrait session. The next thing I knew, there was a knock at the door of my apartment. I answered to find a small round man sweating nervously and burbling apologies in Russian. To lubricate what he clearly feared would be a difficult encounter, he had brought along a bottle of Bulgarian brandy. He also had a bouquet of flowers for my wife...
...diminishment and perhaps the eventual dismantlement of the party, it stands to reason he would want to give up the general secretaryship and move all his books, files and telephones into his other office at Supreme Soviet headquarters. It will be interesting to see if he brings along his portrait of Lenin...
...lovable-sidekick roles have begun to grow familiar, Goodman shows a knack for making the best of tired circumstances: as an alcoholic ex- bartender in Stella, he is just about the only credible touch in a film reeking of Hollywood sham. In Roseanne Goodman has created a full-blooded portrait of a working-class lug, equally credible whether giving heartfelt advice to a teenage daughter or doing boisterous pirouettes in a bowling alley. He seems to mesh perfectly with Barr; Goodman can be deferential even while he is stealing the show...