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...main ones (a parallel text, as it were) is Indian miniature painting, of which he has long been a collector. The jeweled colors and flattened space of the court miniature, the way it filters all natural detail in order to preserve it within the twining conventions of artifice, and above all the sense it provides of looking past the edge of the ordinary world into a privileged domain-all this is echoed and modified in his own small paintings...
...museum built in the past half-century has become so potent a source of local controversy. The gallery is entirely government-run on taxpayers' money. When Mollison bought Blue Poles from the American collector Ben Heller for the unprecedented sum of $2 million at 1973 exchange rates, the figure had to be made public. The issue was immediately seized on by the Australian press, whose management was bitterly opposed to Gough Whitlam's Labor government, as a prime emblem of artsy socialist mismanagement. The propaganda value squeezed from this episode certainly helped many Australians accept the virtual coup...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...
There are serious doubts in the auto industry, though, that the DMC-12 will turn into a collector's item, like the Cord or the Edsel. One such skeptic is Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, retired president of Ford Motor Co. and mentor of De Lorean when both were at GM. Says he: "Usually you have to have cars built in really small quantities to be collector's items, perhaps 700 or less...
Snedeker, an avid gun collector, was convicted of using the money to buy large qualities of ammunition for his personal use. He was president of the male university from 1962 to 1980, when he resigned shortly before being indicted on the charges...