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Unitedbank's fall resulted from the go-go style of Chairman Vincent Kickerillo, a local land developer. Taking over in 1968, Kickerillo overcommitted the bank to real estate loans and investments in other banks during the oil boom of the late '70s and early '80s. When the economy soured in 1982, so did Unitedbank. By this year it was losing $1 million a month. For a time Kickerillo, a self-made millionaire who commuted to work in a jet helicopter, covered the losses himself. But after an audit three weeks ago showed Unitedbank to be $7 million...
...Director Vincent DeVita Jr. called the report "offensive," stressing that the institute's assessments take into account mortality and incidence rates as well as five-year survival rates. David Korn, dean of the Stanford medical school and chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, agreed. He denounced the report as a "shabby polemic...
...lucky object was by Vincent van Gogh -- the largest and best known of seven paintings of sunflowers in a pot that he had done in Arles between August 1888 and January 1889. It was bought through telephone bids by an anonymous collector. It was the next to the last in the sunflowers series still left in private hands, since four are in museums and one was destroyed in Yokohama during World...
What the eager art world saw at Christie's on Monday of last week, Van Gogh's 134th birthday, was less a market transaction than a quasi-religious rite. The house was being washed in the blood of Vincent, the Lamb of Modernism. (And none too soon, skeptics might say, since less than two years ago the president of Christie's, David Bathurst, had to admit that he had tried to rig the market by falsely announcing he had sold a Van Gogh and a Gauguin...
...form of the rite divided neatly into three phases. First, the Manifestation, during which Sunflowers was exhibited, behind bars, to long queues of curiosity seekers at Christie's. Then the Ascension, or auction proper, in which Vincent's glorified body was raised to the empyrean in 4 minutes 30 seconds, a rate of climb of $147,700 per second. And third, the Eucharistic Feast. After the sale, Christie's brought out a savory cake in the form of Sunflowers, the frame made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green...