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Before his death, Hammer claimed the collection was worth $450 million, but most of it is junk: a mishmash of second- or third-rate work by famous names. The Rembrandt Juno is one of his weakest paintings -- large, flat and gross. The Rubens Adoration of the Shepherds may not be by Rubens at all; the Titian, not by Titian. The Leonardo pages, installed in a sort of dim mortuary chapel of their own, look ridiculously anticlimactic. The Impressionist work is as dull as could be. And, except for the Van Gogh and one early Gauguin, so is the more modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Vainest Museum | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...them from branching across state lines and diversifying into fields like the sale of securities. The Administration is also considering adding $25 billion to the FDIC fund through a special assessment on banks or an increase in their insurance premiums -- though that added cost could force some of the weakest institutions to go under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Crisis in Banking: Requium for a Heavyweight | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...first of the one-acts, e.e. cummings' Santa Claus: A Morality, is the weakest of the Christmas offerings. Its attachment to the Santa Claus figure is, at best, intermittent--cummings' play could just as easily have been constructed around another personality of childhood fantasy, like the Easter Bunny...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Unconventional Christmas | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

...passes, pelted by daily thundershowers. Staff members at backcountry camps are decked out as miners, trappers and other frontier characters to provide history lessons and entertainment. The trek's success is measured by a unique scouting goal: Troop 501 must finish as a tight team in step with its weakest hikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cimarron, New Mexico Bears, Bucks And Boy Scouts | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...judicial restraint of American media. If CNN is prevented from airing tapes on the grounds that Noriega's right to a fair trial has been abridged, as this opinion reasons, then it is foreseeable that federal marshalls will march into America's newsrooms and pull stories with only the weakest of possibilities that it could damage right to a fair trial...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Missing Facts | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

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