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...order "to maintain stability in the art market." The suit was dismissed because the judge said Christie's was not responsible for the vagaries of the market. In a statement issued last week, Christie's board said it takes "the gravest view of this isolated lapse from the high standard of conduct" that Christie's maintains. Nevertheless, the sale is scheduled for further scrutiny. New York's attorney general is investigating it for possible consumer fraud...
...uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier if the standard were phrased this way?" If, as often happens, he is seeking Powell's fifth vote, recalls a former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep in touch with Powell's clerk" to make sure the emerging reasoning is acceptable to his colleague.--Brennan will even...
...1960s the indirect approach to the Bomb seemed to be changing. In 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was produced, and in 1964 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat. Dr. Strangelove even incorporated the subtheme of nature out of control in the Bomb-crazy Dr. Strangelove's right arm, which goes its own way, fondly recalls the doctor's Nazi days and at one point attempts to strangle its "master." Commercially, if not critically...
...have money. Boosters of the sport's democratization claim an income of $50,000 a year can be enough to get by, but annual costs run upwards of $10,000. Those who are serious need at least three horses (one for every two chukkers, or periods, in the standard six-chukker game). Price: from $2,500 to $15,000 each. Next come the expenses of a groom, a stable, feeding fees and the rig for transporting the animals to competition. Thus most of polo's new blood is well off, even if not fathomlessly rich: self-made achievers, entrepreneurs, administrators...
With bit parts in such movie hits as Ghostbusters and Amadeus, computer graphics has become part of the standard repertoire of filmmakers and art directors. But the technology is not restricted to Hollywood and Madison Avenue. The Defense Department has invested heavily in complex simulators that use computer graphics for training personnel in the use of tanks, jets and submarines. In the simulators that help teach pilots to fly the CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, the computer graphics alone can cost $3 million...