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...endowment of $2.3 billion, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., has no need to count the pennies, or even the millions. It proved that again last week at a London auction, where the museum bought Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi for $ 10.45 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting at auction, surpassing the $10 million paid for J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone last year. Mantegna worked on the deeply spiritual canvas between 1495 and 1505, when he was court painter for the worldly Gonzagas of Mantua. They would have appreciated the jealousies the sale...
...shelf, the supermarket purchase share of each might be lower than what Pepsi can muster. Coke is unlikely to worry though, since the combined might of its dual entries will still be greater than Pepsi's. In this case, notes Jesse Meyers, publisher of Beverage Digest, "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole...
...intact last week, when a Florida jury acquitted him on federal charges of embezzling money from a secret military fund that he administered in 1975-78. The Justice Department had accused Collins, 55, of tampering with the interest on $450,000 in U.S. Government money while he transferred the sum from one Swiss bank account to another. The jury rejected the prosecution's contention that the general had pocketed $19,000 in interest for himself...
Collins testified that the account was a CIA spy fund that financed covert operations in Asia. The general said that he personally had made only two withdrawals: a payment of $8,654 to purchase intelligence from an informer and an unspecified sum that went to a clandestine U.S. base at which East bloc weaponry is evaluated. Collins, a much decorated war hero who flew 104 missions over North Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos in 1969-70, had described the fund as "a political time bomb," set to go off if its existence were ever made public. The secret account...
...self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted by its own originality, its own shrewdly controlled outrageousness. If Busby Berkeley had ever made a movie about politics and illusion, it might have come out something like this infectious, sobering film. --By Richard Schickel DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART...