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Three months after a Japanese insurance company paid $39.9 million for Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, the overheated art market shows few signs of cooling off. At Christie's London auction house last week, another Van Gogh work, The Bridge at Trinquetaille, was sold in just two tense minutes of bidding for $20.2 million, the second highest price paid for a painting at an auction. The 29-in. by 36-in. Bridge, painted in 1888 when Van Gogh lived in Arles, was sold by the family of New York Banker Siegfried Kramarsky, who bought the painting in 1932. The buyer...
...plan of government, not an open statute book. Bulk can even be an inverse indication of its power: the 181 articles in the constitution of the Weimar Republic were the Maginot Line of German democracy. "It's dangerous to amend the Constitution too much," says Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It won't have the look of fundamental...
...stripped of their freedom, their pride, their names. The recruit who dares to hang some John Wayne sarcasm on the drill instructor will be called Joker (Matthew Modine). The guy from Texas will be dubbed Cowboy (Arliss Howard). Gomer Pyle is the name given to a fat bumpkin (Vincent D'Onofrio) whose dim-witted sanctity begs to be beaten into lean meat. The D.I. (Lee Ermey) will oblige. He will shape Pyle into an M-14 with a loaded magazine -- a full metal jacket. Then Pyle, like his sweetheart of a rifle, will go off. The killing machine will...
...ruling came in the case of Mob Boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Vincent Cafaro, a reputed captain in the same Mafia clan, who were charged last year with racketeering. A federal appeals court in New York City ruled that to deny them bail would violate constitutional guarantees of due process...
...later reports surfaced that Vincent Tese, a wealthy Chicago supporter who has become Cuomo's director of economic development, was soliciting money for a Cuomo campaign. Actually, Tese was calling business leaders to meet with Cuomo about the Governor's proposed bipartisan committee to develop policies on such issues as the trade imbalance and Third World debt. Cuomo responded to the reports with jokes and denials. "If I wanted campaign money," he said, "I wouldn't have to send Vincent Tese out; I would go to Vincent Tese...