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Much is made of Basquiat's use of sources -- vagrant code-symbols, quotes from Leonardo or African bushman art or Egyptian murals. But these are so scattered, so lacking in plastic force or conceptual interest, that they seem merely the result of browsing and doodling rather than looking -- homeless representation. For polemical purposes, any rough sketch of a cartoon African carrying a crate next to a white with a topee and a gun can be turned into a "devastating" indictment of colonialism -- but this doesn't make Basquiat into an artist with an articulate social vision. As for his poetic...
...Harvard University is by law a collection agency of the Internal Revenue Service. What about that?" he said. "Gays and lesbians do not get a marriage deduction according to the tax code. What about that...
...money manager, you may already have scaled back your ownership of pharmaceutical stocks, already have moved into "infrastructure" plays. The "Clinton stocks" people have identified -- H&R Block (because the tax code might change yet again), Caterpillar (because you need heavy equipment to build infrastructure), Paramount Communications (because of its huge textbook operation) and a zillion others -- may still be good buys. But I've never met anyone who got rich in the '60s buying shares in "the company that makes schoolroom desks," which was one of the plays after Kennedy got elected; and while I believe Clinton will...
...friend in official Washington, State Department official Richard Armitage, then at the Pentagon. But when Schweitzer offered his services, he was turned down. "I had to force Ted down the throats of the intelligence bureacracy," says a Defense Intelligence Agency official. The agency soon reversed itself, and under the code name Swamp Ranger, set Schweitzer to screen the Hanoi archives, copying enormous numbers of documents on a $50,000 data scanner the U.S. provided him -- which Vietnam, to the Pentagon's amazement, allowed...
...white photos supplied by a North Carolina native named Eugene Brown. Brown apparently acquired his pictures through his Vietnamese wife, who had intelligence connections in her homeland. He offered his evidence this spring to the Pentagon in exchange for help in traveling to Vietnam. Although the materials Brown (code-named Druid Smoke) eventually delivered in many cases duplicated Schweitzer's, the two sources confirmed each other. "Anyone who thinks there's a big museum in Hanoi where you can back up a C-130 and answer all the POW/MIA questions is mistaken," said Schweitzer...