Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president: "Using art as an investment scares the hell out of me. There's going to be a flood of money in and out, leaving a sound market devastated because of people who shouldn't have been there in the first place...
...simply, it is now difficult and, for most people, impossible to walk into a gallery and look at a work of art without its "value"-which means simply price, real or hypothetical-intruding on their reflections. After Velazquez's Juan de Pareja was bought at auction for New York's Metropolitan Museum for $5.5 million in 1970, the then director of the Met insisted, in his usual peppy, overbearing fashion, that the fuss about the price was all nonsense: in ten years' time nobody would care or even remember what the Met had laid out for this...
MARRIED. Michael Learned, 40, Emmy Award-winning Mama on television's The Waltons; and her live-in companion of three years, William Parker, 33, a TV scriptwriter; she for the third time, he for the first; in New York City...
DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge...
...Literally every attorney I know in Georgia who does any criminal work at all has a death case," she says. Usually Morris is forced to seek out-of-state lawyers for petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, often with the help of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the New York City-based civil rights group that has led the legal assault against capital punishment since the mid-'60s. The fund's lawyers, themselves, represent about 50 prisoners nationwide...