Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the caricature of surrealist kitsch that Lichtenstein invokes in paintings like Reclining Nude, 1977: one figure sporting Swiss-cheese holes à la Henry Moore, another in a stiff suit like a Magritte businessman, a Kandinsky-style squiggle here, an Arpish wiggle there...
...about land values. Indeed all over Beirut, the wheeling and dealing for which the city is celebrated had resumed. With land scarce and money plentiful because hardly anyone pays taxes, the Beirutis continue to invest heavily in property that has risen astronomically in price despite the destruction. Said one businessman: "People who never had a house before are building one now, while those who had them are rebuilding. I know a family whose home has been destroyed three times, and they have rebuilt three times. You can't kill hope...
Owner Charles T. Wilson Jr., a Mexico City businessman, did not know that his colt would even be entered in the Belmont until Barrera told him of his plans after the Pennsylvania Derby. Said Wilson: "I've been in racing long enough to try to be dumb about these things. An owner's principal function is to pay his bills." With a fat Belmont purse of $170,580 safely tucked away, paying the bills will be no problem...
Education is Weston's main pride and principal industry-in fact, its only industry. Declares Westonite Businessman and Parent David Purvis: "We moved to Weston because it had a serious school system. I am willing to spend what it takes to keep it that way." IBM Executive Robert Williams calculates that raising taxes will cost a mere 550 per citizen per day. He wonders if "we should risk our educational system" for such a paltry...
...finally prompted Forlani himself to detonate the explosion. He released a card file listing the names of 963 members in the secret Masonic lodge designated "P2" (the P standing for "Propaganda"). The list had been found at the Arezzo villa of Licio Gelli, 62, a seemingly innocuous Tuscan-born businessman. Police carted out more than 1,000 letters, documents, diaries and ledgers in a dawn raid. Among the papers were confidential police intelligence reports from the 1960s that the government had ordered destroyed in 1974. Said an investigator: "The documents have a potential for blackmail in political, economic and journalistic...