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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...league in mid-November in touchdown catches (11 in 10 games). The Giants can counter with the league's stingiest pass defense. Its members include blitzing linebackers Taylor and Pepper Johnson, along with cornerback Everson Walls from Dallas and safety Dave Duerson from Chicago, both acquired this season to put extra heat on receivers. Says Taylor: "We don't just beat you on the scoreboard. We beat you physically...
...monthly rent. Moving frequently to avoid being ripped off by other drug dealers, Bo placed his common-law wife Linda Payton and their son Brian Jr. in a San Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought a $200,000 house in Chatsworth with cash. Since he put many of his relatives to work in his crack business, he had to provide them with cars. He kept a fleet of 10 modest vehicles for business use, while he drove a Mercedes or Corvette...
...Canadian speculator with Hong Kong money. Then the owner consigned it for sale to a New York gallery, where it hung for some weeks with a price tag of $650,000 on it. No takers. Feeling the pinch, the owner sent it to Sotheby's, which put what it took to be a conservative estimate on it: $350,000 to ; $450,000. But now, not a paddle moved. After some moments of embarrassment, John Marion, chairman of Sotheby's North America, who had been working the room all evening like a paramedic trying to revive an Egyptian mummy, hammered...
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...
...traumatic birth of his island republic by announcing that Singapore had been expelled from the two-year-old Federation of Malaysia. Singapore's 2.7 million citizens are bracing for another wrenching departure this week as Lee, 67, retires. As Lee's successor, 49-year-old Goh Chok Tong, put it, "My greatest challenge is just to maintain standards...