Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...stock index, the Japanese -- who in 1988 accounted for more than half the total recorded sales volume of all art bought at auction worldwide -- bid sluggishly or sat on their hands. The Japanese buyers did not even come out for a Van Gogh still life that was expected to make $12 million to $16 million at Christie's Impressionist and modern sale two weeks ago. It too was bought in, at $9.5 million. However, a fine Van Gogh ink sketch was bought by a New York dealer for $8.4 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a drawing...
Auction spokesmen put what spin they could on it all, speaking of increased selectivity, a healthy trimming of the market, and how first-rate things would continue to get first-rate prices. (That an exceptional painting could still make an exceptional price was in fact confirmed earlier this month at Sotheby's in London when a great Constable landscape, The Lock, 1824, was bought by Baron Thyssen for $21.1 million.) Michael Findlay, head of Christie's Impressionist and modern art sales, called the market a "roller coaster" -- inexactly, since roller coasters go up and down but always finish...
...signs point to Bob Martinez as the White House choice to succeed William Bennett as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Two things make Martinez a natural for the job. One is his reputation as a hard-line antidrug warrior during his single term as Governor of Florida; the other is his connections at the White House...
...Governor's drug-fighting strategy emphasized tough law enforcement. Martinez briefly called out the National Guard to crack down on smugglers and rammed through the legislature a law mandating the death penalty for drug kingpins. To make room for a huge increase in arrests for drug-related crimes, he doubled the number of beds in state prisons to 43,000. Martinez crusaded for drug testing in the workplace, including the Governor's office. He made headlines by taking the first test himself. He also expanded drug-prevention education in Florida schools...
...well as the validity of a German-issued identity card supplied by the Soviet Union. Though Teicholz persuasively unravels Demjanjuk's alibi (he claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time), the author handles the task a bit too eagerly, often telling the reader what to make of the evidence, which piles up "like the corpses in the pit." In fact, some observers express lingering doubts about whether Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible...