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...master's contemporary, Tilman Riemenschneider. It is true that the latter hailed not from Nuremberg but from nearby Wurzburg, yet all the qualities Hughes admires in Stoss's work can be found in Riemenschneider's extraordinary wood carvings. Riemenschneider was Stoss's equal, to say the least. John Rewald New York City Your review says Veit Stoss was not well known outside Germany. No one, however, could graduate from a Hungarian high school 40 years ago if, when presented with a slide of a wood carving, he could not distinguish whether it was a Stoss or a Riemenschneider. Vladimir Lieskovsky...
Barnes claimed to have worked at various times for the CIA, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. In April 1982, he said U.S. advisers in El Salvador were poisoning streams and experimenting with chemical warfare. Two years later, he surfaced in the case of Ronald Rewald, a Hawaiian banker who was in jail at the time facing fraud charges in connection with the collapse of his investment firm. Rewald had also provided cover for the CIA, and said the agency had engineered his troubles. In September 1984, ABC News reported Barnes' claim that the CIA helped...
...broadcast to viewers of ABC's World News Tonight last September, was bizarre by any measure. Scott Barnes, who has sometimes presented himself as a "paramilitary expert," claimed he had taken a job as a prison guard in 1983 at the request of the CIA to watch Ronald Rewald, a Honolulu investment counselor who is under indictment for defrauding approximately 400 investors of $22 million. Barnes said that the CIA then told him, "We gotta take him out." According to the ABC show, Rewald's company had provided cover for several CIA operations, including the arrangement of secret...
Determining the truth of the ABC story may prove difficult because the CIA'S link with Rewald is murky. At the agency's request, a U.S. district-court judge in Hawaii has sealed all documents in a federal proceeding involving the investment counselor on the grounds of national security. CIA Spokeswoman Kathy Pherson says flatly of Barnes: "The CIA has never had any relationship" with...
...facts of Balthus's Me, as related by Rewald, are interesting but far from sensational. The big secret turns out merely to be that he is part Jewish. Balthus was born in , Paris in 1908 to East European emigre parents, s both artists. They raised him in a cultivated milieu that included the poet 1 Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom his mother was infatuated and who became a surrogate father to the boy after the Klossowskis separated...