Word: carte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plied hundreds of doubters with 100-proof Maxwell House coffee, and it may yet be proved that in the interests of the republic he authorized a three-martini lunch for a recalcitrant Senator or two. It is a fact that first-class limousine service was employed with abandon to cart the doubters up and down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...they are waxworks of a superior kind. At 53, Hanson has taken his craft beyond the limits of Mme. Tussaud: one can get within two feet of his Man with Hand Cart, 1975, and the only thing that demonstrates the wrinkles and veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions...
...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...bank officials could only assume it was an inside job. First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right...
...paintings of Washington may be around. Stuart also had plenty of imitators. Many people stumble across a painting of Washington and dream of a Stuart bonanza. Says Monroe Fabian, an associate curator at the National Portrait Gallery: "The paintings come in here in brown paper bags and boxes. People cart them in from halfway across the country." A genuine full-length Stuart, he adds, would be worth "somewhere in the seven-figure range...