Word: collectors
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...With adult clothing, pricey collector's dolls and a pickup bar, the store sends a clear signal that Mattel intends to seduce an older demographic. This isn't as crazy as it may seem. In Asia, the Barbie brand is not deeply entrenched, so grown-ups are less likely to automatically dismiss it as kids' stuff. Besides, Asians don't necessarily put away childish things as they age. Collecting toys such as Hello Kitty merchandise well into adulthood is common. "Asian culture loves cute," says Richard Dickson, general manager of the Barbie brand. "They're much more comfortable with character...
Human Intelligence Collector Operations "The Army Field Manual" Department of the Army September...
...limits of deceiving a prisoner in the name of getting information: "[The interrogator] may, according to international law, use ruses of war to build rapport with interrogation sources, and this may include posing or "passing himself off" as someone other than a military interrogator. However, the collector must not pose as: A doctor, medic, or any other type of medical personnel; Any member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or its affiliates. Such a ruse is a violation of U.S. treaty obligations; A chaplain or clergyman; A journalist; A member of the U.S. Congress...
...pictures. Those were a cache of 240 paintings, watercolors and drawings, some of them nudes, that Wyeth had made between 1970 and 1985 of a typically subdued, slightly Rubenesque young blonde woman. In the summer of 1986, the New York Times reported on its front page that an American collector named Leonard Anderson had paid $6 million for these previously "unknown" works...
...Andrews, it turned out, was not actually a collector but a publisher of newsletters. ("Swine Flu Litigation Reporter" was one of them.) He was also a greeting-card manufacturer who had secured all reproduction rights to the Helga pictures. After the publicity storm had been whipped to a peak, he sold the whole bunch to a Japanese buyer for a reported $45 million. At that point, Wyeth found it prudent to come forward to say there had never been a sexual relationship between him and his model, and his wife announced that actually she had seen some of the pictures...