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...market was going like the Wabash Cannon Ball through 1988 and 1989, Bond's own finances were not. His bid for Irises had been part of a consistent pattern: paying far too much for investments even though they were, as assets, sound. In 1987 he paid more than $700 million for Kerry Packer's TV stations in Australia. In the financial year ending last June, Bond's media firm posted a $34 million loss. Also in 1987, Bond paid more than $1 billion for the U.S. brewery G. Heileman, whose 1989 resale value is about half that...
Johnson said he did not believe that the crime was part of a pattern...
...This is sort of unusual," Johnson said. "It happens once in a while but I wouldn't say it's part of a pattern. It's just a crime of opportunity with a bunch of kids out looking for trouble...
...Inside, the experience of architectural structure is nearly kinetic: as you enter, a fake beam shoots past at eye level and simply stops in midair, cleanly cut off, while a fake column stops 10 ft. short of the floor, stalactite-like. Eisenman is relentless. His precisely orchestrated riot of pattern and angles continues even with the placement of fluorescent light fixtures in the basement, even in the arrangement of gravel on the roof...
Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...