Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exemption for his mother, who had been dead for ten years. His wonderful explanation: "Mother's still alive in my heart." Such items effectively get across the idea to the taxpayer that the odds are heavily against him in his annual duel of wits with the tax collector. And so they are: the Internal Revenue Service, with 58,584 eagle-eyed workers in 1,224 offices, is by far the biggest, most efficient and most successful revenue collection agency in human history. But the U.S. taxpayer is quite a fellow himself. In his heart burns a variety of emotions...
...help the taxpayer stay pure, the Internal Revenue Service has set up a system of checks and double checks. When a return first lands on the desk of a local collector, it is scanned for proper information and necessary enclosures. Minor errors are corrected, and marginal sarcasm from taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding...
...very good time to clean the slate if past errors or omissions are known. In fact, if I had a friend with doubts about his personal tax records. I would advise him to drop around to his district office soon and clear them up." Your friendly neighborhood tax collector thinks the odds are about to make the struggle completely one-sided...
...Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around an art gallery is a total misconception. It is a home, and paintings look best in a home. We were solely interested in creating an atmosphere in which art would look best." The living room was "somewhat of a problem...
...other; he simply wanted to show "the artist's handwriting, his forms, his palette, his style-the meshwork through which he sees life." Jagged Blacks. The most successful of the miniature retrospectives is that of Franz Kline. It begins with a straightforward drawing of David Orr, the collector who came across Kline exhibiting on a Greenwich Village sidewalk 23 years ago. The next work is a snowy landscape in which a black fence runs jaggedly through the scene, much as Kline's thick black abstract strokes do today. The painting called Nijinsky is followed by an illuminating sketch...