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Darias' most important contact was Marlene Navarro, a petite, ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt...
...stock market that began in 1990, when the bloated Nikkei average plummeted from nearly 39,000 to less than 15,000 in 2 1/2 years. Then there are recollections of the Great Crash itself, which have become part of America's memory. "People start thinking of the '20s and '30s," says author and retired fund manager Peter Lynch, "and almost everyone seems to have had an Uncle Louie who lost everything and ended up selling pencils...
...American ones, David Smith and Alexander Calder. Its time span is from 1928, when Picasso made an open frame of iron rods with a pinhead and two tiny startled hands and called it Figure, to Smith's maturity in the early 1960s. But its core is the '30s...
...overexposed. Nobody could love and only a hurricane could budge the red mobile that hangs, like a glider beefed up to the size of a DC-3, from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful Tightrope, 1937, with its wire personages balancing on a string between two balks of wood, they...
Smith remains the true primary heir of Picasso and Gonzalez -- and, to some extent, of Giacometti, whose space constructions like The Palace at 4 A.M. inspired the young American artist in the '30s to make a series of small iron precincts and even a miniature iron house, complete with iron paintings on the walls. Curator Gimenez's choice of his work is an exemplary condensation. Beginning with those initial Surrealist images, it picks up on the early sculptures that clearly indicate the bent of his talent, such as Amusement Park, 1938, a small work that both remembers Picasso's iron...