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This dialogue of Caravaggio with the modern world was unfortunately cut short by a particularly negative turn in his life’s theme of fights and flights. He collapsed on a beach at Port Ercole, while trying to run after the ship that had left with all of his most recent work. While the 39 year-old’s body remained on that beach, his paintings sailed away: Caravaggio’s work outlived him. For centuries, his art was largely criticized as vulgar and lacking imagination. Only in the 1950s, after an exhibit of his work...
...time, that is, until they discover, about twenty feet apart, an airplane full of cocaine and a long-lost ship full of a billion pounds of gold. At this point, my roommate Derek C. Dorr, ’08, ever the fan of craptastic cinema, said, “I wish Ocean Eleven guy [Scott Caan] would get shot.” Word...
Cruise was a sinking ship, and he was taking Scientology down with him. Although he brought unprecedented attention to the religion, he also brought mockery and derision. How a rational human being could become entangled in it, I wanted to know...
...pending disaster" says Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, which represents 3,000 farmers that grow, pack, and ship half of the nation's fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...
...what's hot? Anything with cross-collectible value. Postcards, for example, are sought by both postcard collectors and stamp collectors. There's also a market for anything connected to transportation (think cruise-ship programs, trolley tickets and the like). Invitations to events like a presidential Inauguration are in demand. In fact, anything relating to topics of historical interest--a war, the moon landing, a World's Fair--can bring bucks. Even some old magazines can command a fair price at market (not National Geographic, however--too plentiful). Carbone recently sold more than 100 issues of Ladies' Home Journal from...