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...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples set a new high (TIME, June 24), stepped into the ranks of top Greek buyers by purchasing a Matisse for $25,000, Bonnard's Still Life with Cat (appraised at $50,000) for $70,000, and Gauguin's Tahitian scene, Man Taporo...
Palabaud has seen the swift ruin of so much beauty that death holds no terror. He remembers how quickly the lovely bronzed Polynesians fade, how at 30 their "faces become shrivelled and deformed . . . and bodies which were formerly shapely either swell or collapse into meagreness." His beautiful Tahitian mistress had come home with him, but in European clothes her soft body loses form and boldness, her sandaled feet seem flat and ugly. Palabaud dies peacefully in a hospital bed, his mind awash with memories of the sea he had always loved. A few shreds of his corpse are sent...
...contrary. Among other diversions, there is a dance, called Timorodee, which is performed by the young girls . . . consisting of motions and gestures beyond imagination wanton." With a wife and children waiting in England, Cook did not say in his famous journal whether he resisted the wanton spell of the Tahitian women, although he got close enough to note that "their breath [was] perfectly without taint...
...airborne pirate galleon, pops through the rabbit hole into Alice's Wonderland, hops on a mining cart for a trip to the diamond mines of the Seven Dwarfs; 2) Adventureland-an outdoor museum of natural wonders, designed to complement the True-Life Adventure Films, which will offer a Tahitian village populated by real live Tahitians (peddling papaya juice), and a trip down a tropical river past nattering monkeys, gnashing crocs and yawping plastic hippos; 3) Frontierland -"a glimpse into America's historical past" that will give its young customers all the sensations of starring in a horse opera...
Polynesian's progeny have been racing for only three full seasons, but they already include such notable stakes-winners as Native Dancer and Tahitian King. Currently at stud in Kentucky, and booked to 38 mares this year, Polynesian looked like a real bargain. Last year he ranked second only to Bull Lea* as a sire of moneywinners, and his stud fees have steadily risen from $1,500 to $5,000 for a live foal. Averaging 20 foals a year for the next ten years, his expectancy, Polynesian can be expected to return $1,000,000 on the syndicate...