Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Gardner paintings would be worth a tidy sum on the legitimate art market, though nowhere near the ridiculously exaggerated figure of $200 million or so that was trumpeted all last week on the front pages and TV. The Vermeer could be worth $70 million, the Rembrandt seapiece $15 million and the rest a lot less: the five Degas being trivial and the Manet not much better. So why the inflation? It is a standard police technique to increase publicity and make fencing more difficult for the thieves, who are apt to get their notions of value from press reports...
...there a danger, though, that a united Germany will lose interest in the European dream...
...thank God, is not a dream. It is true that we speak nine languages and that we still feel the roots of our national histories. But there is another reality. No member country -- not even Britain -- can afford to leave the E.C. We are much too integrated economically now, though this dependence has not yet entered the collective consciousness. So I don't think it's easy for anyone to slow down the process of integration. Everyone has an interest in taking the European path, and my country wants to go fast...
...VERSUS THE VOLCANO. In this wan bit of whimsy from Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley, Tom Hanks plays a young man who believes he is dying and so agrees to jump into a live volcano. The picture makes no more sense than its synopsis, though Meg Ryan beguiles in three different roles...
...increased the already tremendous pressure on college coaches and athletes to compile winning records and reach postseason play. Meanwhile, as drug scandals and other sports controversies proliferate, TV commentators face the difficult task of reporting on events that, in many cases, their employers have a financial interest in. Though less boosterish than they once were, sports journalists have traditionally gone easier on events telecast by their own network. "Too frequently the networks divided sports into 'their' events and 'our' events," notes Dave Marash, a former newscaster who will join ESPN's baseball team this year. "Incidents of probing and candor...