Word: sydney
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Like many another entrepreneur, Bond had never given much thought to art until he got rich. "This Pie-casso, now," he asked an Australian museum man over dinner in Sydney in the early 1980s, "is he worth having?" But a major impressionist collection was what Bond hankered after. He knew this could not possibly come cheap. He didn't care. He was, in short, a dealer's dream: Billionaris ignorans, a species now almost extinct in the U.S. but preserved (along with other ancient life-forms) in the Antipodes...
Banking sources in Australia say Bond only regained title to this Manet in the nick of time. He had bought it at Christie's in 1983 for $3.96 million and transferred ownership to the Sydney branch of Chemical Bank. Chemical then leased it back to Bond. Why this maneuver? Because, says a bank source who analyzed the lease after it was issued, Bond had found a tax loophole. Under Australian tax law, you could lease any asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long...
...celebrities, a literary John Alden who can consistently woo -- and win -- the public in their behalf. In 1984 Iacocca, Novak's collaboration with auto executive Lee Iacocca, jolted the publishing world by selling 2.7 million copies. He followed that up with best sellers on Tip O'Neill and Sydney Biddle Barrows, the deb-styled Mayflower Madam. Paid a paltry $80,000 for the Iacocca book (which made $10 million to $15 million for its subject), Novak has since been rewarded with a much healthier cut of the profits he helps generate. For My Turn, he received a six-figure advance...
...public schools now approach the national average. The range of achievement remains stunningly wide: the high school has gifted students and functional illiterates. Prince Edward High's debating and forensics teams are state champions. The yearbook, slick, lively and professional, wins awards. Some students go to nearby Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood College for advanced courses. School Superintendent James M. Anderson Jr. and his teachers have accomplished an academic resurrection...
...million so far. The show has also been mounted in London, where Anthony Hopkins is playing the character based on Boursicot, and in Buenos Aires and Hamburg. Remarkably for a nonmusical, it has been booked for major productions in Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Auckland, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, San Juan and New Delhi. This makes Hwang the first U.S. playwright to become an international phenomenon in a generation, since the heyday of Edward Albee. Dozens of film companies have bid for the rights. Says Hwang: "I guess the play is the thinking person...