Word: benedek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Straw's troubles emerged last June, when A. Richard Benedek, a private New York dealer, filed a complaint against Straw in the Superior Court of Essex County, Mass. The two had been doing business together since 1975, and everything had apparently gone smoothly. According to the affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters...
...Straw, Benedek claims, subsequently told him that 17 of the 22 pieces of furniture had been sold, but Benedek was never paid his half share of the proceeds. And although Straw had told Benedek that he had a buyer lined up to pay $19 million for the $15 million group of old masters, no payment appeared from that deal either. Benedek became suspicious and, he claims, asked Straw for proof of purchase and sale. Straw did not furnish it. He wrote Benedek two checks totaling $655,000; both bounced. Then he wrote three promissory notes to cover his debts...
...LASLO BENEDEK...
...does her appeal turn off when the cameras do; everyone in Hollywood is in love with her. "If only they were all like her, lady actresses," says Lost Horizon Co-Star Peter Finch. "The nicest goddamn actress I've ever seen on a set," says Laslo Benedek, director of a European mystery titled The Night Visitor. Liv has been accustomed to working in Scandinavia for between $10,000 and $20,000 per picture and being treated as just another member of the company. Now she is in the $200,000 bracket and is as delighted with her limousines...
...women, except anatomical ones? It seems unlikely. Anatomy, parturition and gender, observes Psychologist Joseph Adelson, cannot be wished away "in a spasm of the distended will, as though the will, in pursuit of total human possibility, can amplify itself to overcome the given." Or, as Psychoanalyst Therese Benedek sees it, "biology precedes personality...