Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none. Mystery is the supreme thing...
While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...contract in New Delhi may find his documents interminably lost between offices unless he helps them along with "speed money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when...
...were asked to explain in court. One government official admitted lending Villegas 30,000 pesos ($7,700) without interest because he was the mayor's compadre. An assistant declared he had given Villegas loans without collateral because he regarded the boss as "my own son." A wealthy Manila businessman testified that he had lent Villegas' wife 15,000 pesos because the mayor "was like a brother to me." With that, Villegas denounced the investigation as an invasion of his family's privacy. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and Villegas is still mayor...
...restaurant rather than to government. He has never understood the legislative functions of the governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming governor, but otherwise he is the same. He still spends one entire day a week seeing people who want to bring their garbage difficulties of personal problems...