Word: butler
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...large proletariat from which trends can be condensed at will. But the struggle for visibility is intense from Maine to Albuquerque, and careerism, once a guilty secret, has become one of the art world's main texts. We have at last reached the state of mind envisioned by Samuel Butler more than 100 years ago in Erewhon, where students are examined in the prices fetched by leading pictures of the previous 50 or 100 years, because the artist "is a dealer in pictures, and it is as important for him to learn how to adapt his wares to the market...
...York City lawyer Samuel C. Butler '51, who will sit on the board until 1988, is a director of Kentucky-based Ashland Oil Company, manufacturer of oil, coal and chemical Spokesman Dan Lacy says the company employ about 100 people--of 32,000 company-wide--in two South African sites an oil warehouse and chemical plant. About three-quarters of those employees are Black, and the operations produce revenues last year of about $10 million, out of total 1984 revenues of $7.85 billion. Ashland received the lowest possible Sullivan rating last year, according to Lacy...
Finally, Dillon, chairman of Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City. Mo., whose Overseer term expires next June, sits on the board of New York-based Phelps Dodge Company Phelps Dodge, which manufactures rare metal products, owns a flourspar mine in the Western Transvaal which employs 185 people. It also own 44 percent of Black Mountain Mineral Development Company, which operates a lead and silver mine and employs 1500 people. That 44 percent stake produced $1.7 million for Phelps Dodge (out of 1984 revenues of $977.38 million), but company spokesman Richard W. Pendleton says Phelps Dodge plans to sell...
...Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause) joins a Haight-Ashbury commune...
...want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Peacock). These six suspects are joined in the movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where. But until Clue is released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors, who have yet to film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious...