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...surviving output. Because Vermeer's work is so rare, no such gathering of it has been made since his lifetime, or will happen again in ours. But, on Dec. 16, the show had to close. Last week the National Gallery's director, Earl ("Rusty") Powell III, managed to scrape together the necessary $12,000 or so a day from private museum funds to reopen the Vermeer galleries--though none of the rest of the museum--for just a week, until this Wednesday. Now you see it, now you don't, then you do. But next week, who knows...
Trouble is, life is too complicated. Everybody's running computers, shopping, working 80 hours a week, worrying about Clinton and Gingrich and the sorry New York Jets. What they need to do is scrape off the barnacles of quotidian life and get simple...
...small comfort to Terri Yates. Last year, working full time, she took home about $10,000 as a cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have...
...beat the guy up in self-defense, and that he used his fists -- not a metal pipe, as charged. His family got in touch with Harvey A. Kaminsky, a seasoned trial lawyer in White Plains, New York, and even though Kaminsky agreed to lower his fees, they had to scrape together family loans to pay off the $15,000 it cost to bring the case to trial. For Lampropoulos, the lawyer employed a $50 an hour investigator to find witnesses. Other extras were simply too expensive. "With more money, we would have ordered a helicopter for an aerial view...
...succumbs to polemics--his characters speak in their individual voices. The play concerns Floyd's efforts to get to Chicago to take advantage of a recording offer that could bring him into his own. But he's got problems: fresh out of a stretch in the workhouse, he must scrape up the money for a new guitar and a bus ticket, and he has to persuade his friends Canewell, a harmonica player, and Red, a drummer, to accompany him. He wants to take his girl Vera with him too, but he has to convince her that he's changed...