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...painting. Monet also made quite conscious gestures to art history. His series of poplars near his house in Giverny -- their slender, stately trunks along the banks of the Epte reflected in the water and forming an almost abstract palisade, the S shape of their bushed-out tops strung along like a festive garland -- pays homage to French rococo, Fragonard in particular. Like his lyric images of a stretch of the Seine from 1896 to 1897, the paintings show how unrelentingly conscious Monet was of the abstract basis of design, even when painting the mistiest veils of color...
...embodied Wall Street's gold-rush spirit of the 1980s more than Peter Cohen, the high-strung chairman of the investment firm Shearson Lehman Hutton. A short, cigar-smoking firebrand, Cohen transformed Shearson from a stolid retail brokerage into an investment-banking giant. Backed by American Express, which bought the firm for $360 million in 1981, Shearson grew from 11,000 employees to 47,000 by the mid-'80s. But Cohen's expansion drive proved unstable. Hurt by several missteps and the slowing pace of Wall Street dealmaking, Shearson's investment-banking revenue declined 27% last year, to $963 million...
...years of news clips and sound bites strung together in barely cohesive fashion. Cut from the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team's "miracle on ice" to a shot of Madonna's "Material Girl" video. Then Ivan Boesky and Michael Miliken. Then pan to a lone Chinese demonstrator staring down an armored division. Then a crowd of drunken kids dancing below the Brandenburg Gate...
...film loosely based on Holiday's 1956 autobiography of the same title. In the movie, Diana Ross (who sings the songs in the film herself, blasphemy of the highest degree as it further robs the audience of the true essence of Lady Day) portrays Billie as a strung-out heroin addict who throws her talent away even though she has the support of a loving husband (Billy Dee Williams) and thousands of appreciative fans...
...pennies that stay locked in pockets through all the summer months find their way into red-swinging pots and small tin cups and upturned palms. The wreaths and red ribbons and lights strung through the sky turn a street-corner blind man's blues into a Christmas carol...