Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...qualifications for joining the short list, Coppola says, "Matt has got the gift--and he's a writer in his own right. That gives him something special." That plus the fact that Damon's salary remains a fraction of his more famous peers, an attractive prospect to studios in search of new talent...
Unlike the millions of victims who perished in the Holocaust, the possessions they were forced to leave behind often survived the war. The search for lost gold and cash has recently focused on Swiss banks, but the quest for their art is broader, spreading throughout Europe and into the U.S. Experts estimate that there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of paintings, prints and lithographs stolen by the Nazis that are now in America's private collections and top museums. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other...
After the war the Gutmanns' surviving children, Lili and Bernard, began to hunt for the paintings they had grown up with. Bernard, who became virtually obsessed with the search, eventually concluded that most of the artwork, including the Degas, had been carried off by Soviet troops at the war's end. When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby...
...concluded that he had drowned her in the bathtub before taking her in the car. According to an arrest affidavit, Martin has confessed to both crimes. When nabbed, the couple were making hasty preparations to leave town. Martin reportedly said they were about to contact a "matrimonial agency" in search of their next victim...
First it cleaned up Times Square, now the Disney Corporation plans to do the same for the Internet. At an online industry conference Monday of more than 400 companies, most notably itself and AOL, Disney will announce the launch of a new search engine that will include only Web sites screened by Disney employees. The Yahoo-style site will be up and running by 1998, and promises to be the most extensive and kid-safe engine of all. "If families feel (the Internet) is not a family place, there's no way it's going to become as popular...