Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly spread that he was dying. Within 24 hours, his canvases disappeared from gallery walls all over Paris as dealer after dealer waited for Villon prices to skyrocket. The old man recovered, but as one Right Bank dealer sheepishly says of himself and his colleagues: "We are like a bunch of undertakers, keeping a death watch on the older artists...
...been certified by recognized authorities. "So to show you what's going on I set about painting a picture which everyone would praise without fail, for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to show up the pundits and the cranks, the speculators and the snobs, the whole bunch of maggots...
Democrats were openly scornful. Said Young Democratic Club Leader Carlos Moore after the Fort Worth meeting: "These people are just a bunch of far right-wingers who have been supporting the Republican ticket for 20 to 30 years. They can't win their viewpoint within the Democratic Party." But the criticism missed the point. Although many Texans have indeed been voting Republican for years, only recently has actual G.O.P. membership become respectable...
...sell techniques used to merchandise the big mass products. "Advertising is a bore," snaps Fred Papert, chairman of Manhattan's Papert, Koening Lois. "People don't pay attention to advertising. The trouble is that a lot of agency people have the idea that the public is a bunch of clods-and they write ads accordingly." Howard Gossage, whose Weiner & Gossage spread the word about Irish whisky, is even more blunt: "I don't know a first-class brain in this business who has any respect for it. Advertising is America's only native, original art form...
Director Martin Ritt (The Long, Hot Summer) has obviously sought for artistic truth in this film, but the only general truth that Blues propounds is one that might have prevented this production: expatriates are a pretty dull bunch...