Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month or so. He was tall and unshaven and sweaty, so it surprised me the first time when his voice revealed him a gentle nervous faggot. I would have forgotten him had I not seen him reincarnated last night as Flute, the Bellows-mender, later Thisbe, both parts executed by Woody...
...avid collector of modern art, Pompidou as Premier yanked down the fusty old portraits of Richelieu, Colbert and other ancient statesmen and filled his office walls with splashy Soulages, Ernsts and Buffets. Later, he replaced the sculptured nymphs in the garden of his offices with a modern sculpture that Culture Minister André Malreaux had recommended as "unknown but remarkable...
Welcome to Xanadu is a typical new thriller, as was John Fowles's The Collector. The plot is of the old-fashioned boy-terrorizes-girl variety-but with a psychotic twist added. Leonard Hatch, a self-styled poet spouting Nietzsche, comes down out of the New Mexico mountains, kidnaps a tomboyish 16-year-old farm girl and carries her back to his retreat in the hills. Soon, one learns that he is a fugitive from a mental institution, suffering from the endemic new thriller malady: an acute case of mothering so smothering that he is impotent...
...radically pink professor of promiscuity, delector of delights, collector of the sights, defector of all rights, rejection of the fight, defecating deities galore. And what's more you know the score. You turkey...
...family so shunned the limelight that President-elect Warren G. Harding had to ask, "Who is Mellon?" when Andrew W. was recommended to him for the job of Secretary of the Treasury. "Uncle Andy" served from 1921 to 1932, but he will probably be better remembered as the collector who gave the nation a $50 million art collection and a building (now the National Gallery of Art) to house...