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...fact that Helmet is not a Rembrandt may be disappointing, but it is still a very good work," says Berlin Curator Jan Kelch. While the museum will rehang it and has no intention of selling it, the raw realities of the art market are not nearly so aesthetically pure. The painting's estimated value has dropped from $8 million to a mere...
...mistakes made by China's leaders during the past 30 years. He is referring to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both campaigns were initiated to rekindle enthusiasm for Communist ideology. Both episodes turned into disasters. Now China's leaders have seen the light. In its pure form Communism cannot exist; it must adopt some capitalist traits. Otherwise, the "polarization between rich and poor" that Deng speaks of will occur in a drastic way. As China's leader says, "You should give them [the peasants] the power to make money." What is a more important characteristic of capitalism...
...comparative serenity of London, Edward casts a baffled look backward at all he has experienced: "In a way it's all a muddle starting off with an accident: my breakdown, drugs, telepathy, my father's illness, cloistered neurotic women, people arriving unexpectedly, all sorts of things which happened by pure chance. At so many points anything being otherwise could have made everything be otherwise...
...become a pivotal figure in the rescue of photography from the genteel posturing of pictorialism, with its perfumed moods and swampy prints. Like-minded photographers such as Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham joined him to found f/64, the now legendary group that promoted the principles of sharp focus and pure, powerful form. On sunrise camera treks through Death Valley or the Canyon de Chelly, he showed that stony facts could engender the deepest feelings...
...president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice president of Color Systems Technology, which provides the new versions to TBS, calls the process "simply another state-of-the-art enhancement. Would you rather have a film sit on the shelf in its 'pure' form or be seen by large numbers of people only because it was colored...