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$86 million for a bacon triptych leads record sales at sotheby's
In a sensational follow-up to Agatha Christie's $348.26 1000000 auction of postwar and coeval art on Tues, Sotheby's sold on wed 73 works of art for $362.03 1000000. The six world auction bridge records that were set inside the first hour o May 16 2008
'astonishing' reunion for austrian suspect's family
Members of the Austrian family victimized by a man who imprisoned his girl for 24 years and fathered seven kid with her had an "astonishing" reunion at the clinic where they are acquiring psychiatric guidance, officials said Tues. The authorization said t Apr 30 2008
'catholic problem' dogs obama and democrats
16 years ago, the Democratic Party refused to allow Henry M. Robert Casey, then the governor of Keystone State, to speak at its subject convention because his anti-abortion views, stemming from his Roman Catholic faith, clashed with the party platform and Aug 8 2008
'coworking,' a cooperative for the modern age
: Contemplating his calling path a couple of years ago, a young computing machine programmer named Brad Neuberg faced a modern predicament. "It seemed I could either have a job, which would give me construction and community," he said, "or I could be inde Feb 22 2008
'dancing,' a near-perfect piece of internet art
There are no weekend box business office charts for online videos. But if there were, near or at the very top of the list right now might well be a four-and-a-half-minute video called "Dancing," which more than four 1000000 people have viewed on YouTube, Jul 9 2008
'defector girl boxer' supports family with her fists
In a gym on the top floor of a five-story building with no lift, in a ring with an uneven and patched canvas and strung with wash, a 17-year-old girl who had never heard of Elijah Muhammad Ali until four years ago shadowboxes against an imaginary opp Oct 24 2008
'magic is over' for the u.s., says foreign minister of france
Claude Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of French Republic and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States' Mar 13 2008
'marie-antoinette' at the grand palais: a queen of the arts?
It opens with a little girl in a rose-strewn dress dance across the stage in the Austrian palace of her childhood. It ends in a vast, dusky space where a lock of her own and her son's hair and a wall inscribed with her plaintive words takes Marie-Ant Mar 18 2008
'no country for old men' takes top honors at 37th annual key art movie marketing awards
"No state for Old Men" is still collection awarding. The film — which won Oscars for best image, screenplay and manager — earned the inaugural address "best political campaign of the year" award at the 37th annual Key Art awarding, which Jun 15 2008
'nothing on the plane works,' relative says after woman dies on american flight
: An American Airlines rider died after a flight attendant told her he couldn't give her any O and then tried to help her with faulty equipment, including an empty O tank, a relation said. The air hose confirmed the flight death and said checkup prof Feb 25 2008
'sarah dude' population forms deep bonds with palin
It is not unusual for fans of Sarah Palin to shout out to the Last Frontier governor in the midst of her stump address. It is noteworthy that the crowds are to a great extent male. "You rock me out, Sarah," yelled one man, erosion a red-checked hunti Oct 20 2008
'spherified' juice? controversy among spain's top chefs
With innovation like Parmesan snow, chilled sauces that "boil" with dry ice and olive-shaped capsules of "spherified" juice, the vanguard chefs of Spain have conquered the highest peaks of international culinary acclamation. Delicate foams and gels h May 28 2008
'stunned' white supremacists keep low profile in campaign
A tall, extra-hot mocha in his hand and a .380-caliber pistol on his hip, Bill White sat near the window of a Starbucks in Roanoke, Virginia, last month and discussed his political predicament as the leader of one of the state's more established neo- Oct 22 2008
'super spike' oil analyst gains a lot of wall street cred
Arjun Murti remembers the pain of the oil shocks of the 1970s. But he is brace for something far worse now: He foresees a "super spike" - a price surge that will soon drive crude oil to $200 a gun barrel. Murti, who has a bit of a green run, is not b May 22 2008
'the great gatsby' resonates with urban adolescents
: Jinzhao Wang, 14, who emigrated two years ago from China, has never seen anything like the huge mansions that loomed over Long Island Sound in glamorous 1920s New York. But F. Scott Edward Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby," with its subje Feb 18 2008
'tutta la vita davanti': all italy is singing the call-center blues
'You have your stallion life ahead of you," is the leitmotiv repeated by well-meaning adults to the 20-something protagonists of a new Italian film that suggests, instead, that when it comes to the hereafter, Italy's young person are headed for Apr 12 2008
'van gogh and the colors of the night': brilliantly charting an artist's metamorphosis
A new type of blockbuster art show is emerging in which a limited but rigorous selection and a spartan display free from dohickey allow the art to deliver its full punch. The admirable exhibition "Van Gogh and the colour of the Night" on view at the Museu Oct 4 2008
'vicki cristina barcelona': a summer of sensuality, possibility and a tinge of sadness
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Directed by Woody Allen (U.S.) Bathed in light so deliciously golden and honeyed that you might be tempted to lick the silver screen, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is a rueful comedy about two young American women who, during a sum Aug 16 2008
'war surgery in afghanistan and iraq: a series of cases, 2003-2007'
The image show shredded limbs, burned faces, abundantly bleeding lesion. The topic are largely American GIs, but they include Iraqis and Afghans, some of them young kid. They appear in a new book, "War Surgery in Islamic State of Afghanistan and Iraq Aug 5 2008
'your turn is next,' gadhafi warns arab leaders after us toppling of saddam
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi poured contempt on chap Arab leaders at a acme Saturday and warned that they might be overthrown like former Iraqi president Saddam Husain. Gadhafi's rambling, off-the-cuff address to the gap of the Arab acme both bewild Mar 30 2008 |