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...scene that captured the news last week was of stately superlawyer Clark Clifford, that icon of Washington power brokering for five decades, clutching his fedora and lowering his well-worn face in a Manhattan courtroom. There he and his younger partner Robert Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful...
Adham is just the latest of several Saudis with intimate ties to the royal family who have been dragged into the B.C.C.I. investigations. Also indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau was Ghaith Pharaon, the most flamboyant of the Saudis, who bought the National Bank of Georgia from Bert Lance, President Carter's onetime budget chief, and later sold it to First American. Last month Morgenthau moved against Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, who headed the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. Still another enormously rich Saudi remains under investigation: Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo has also had his past differences with Clinton, causing some to worry that his nominating speech might lack his customary fervor. But the Delphic orator brought all his skills from Albany to Manhattan. His voice full of fury one minute and forgiveness the next, he called out Clinton's name no fewer than 30 times. He evoked the image of a national parade celebrating a victory over problems at home more joyous than the one that followed the gulf war. "So step aside, Mr. Bush!" Cuomo shouted. "You've had your parade...
Paul Brock, the hero of Avery Corman's THE BIG HYPE (Simon & Schuster; $19), is a low-profile writer and family man transformed by a Manhattan show- business promoter into a national phenomenon. The money is swell, but Brock wants to cling to his artistic integrity as if it were an old sports jacket. Corman (Oh, God!) has a light comic touch that allows Brock to have it both ways and remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime...