Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Thieves usually fence their loot for 5% of its "real" value. This robbery will yield nothing like that. The only professional thing about it was its speed. As art thieves, specialists in heisting old paintings under the best conditions for resale or ransom, last week's pair were bunglers. They cut some canvases off their support stretchers, a hasty amateur act that enables the painting to be rolled up but severely damages it by cropping and cracks the old dry paint like a potato crisp when it is rolled, thus causing big problems of restoration. (When another Vermeer, The Letter...
These academic distractions can ruin the entertainment. The lovers' talk is smart, witty and direct -- an eavesdropper's fantasy. The posterotic mood is sophisticated; the mature pair give each other plenty of latitude and genuine affection. There are other voices in other rooms: a Czech woman and her husband, who accuses Philip of making him a cuckold. More confusion and explanations...
...first doubles pair of Amy DeLone and Jamie Henikoff opened the match, annihilating Demon Deacons Beatrice Guery and Karin Dallwitz...
...Captain Nicole Rival and Erika Elmuts had a rougher go of it at third doubles. After losing 7-5 in the first set to Diane McKeon and Tracy Zawacki, the Demon Deacon duo capitalized on the Crimson pair's poor communication and unforced errors to coast in the second stanza...
...legible but quite unrelated signs for things float on a field of color in a way that very distantly recalls Miro. Cadillac/Chopsticks, 1975, is just what it says: the rear-half profile of a '60s Caddy, bulbous with fins, and in the lower right a red X depicting a pair of chopsticks. Nothing else. One is not much helped by the otherwise useful catalog essay of Ned Rifkin, to whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour and the car culture of the West Coast, while the chopsticks could allude to a New Yorker's love...