Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baby girl hanging by her hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, Dominique, 14 years old and headed for gold, thanked her parents. "I look in the mirror...
...lime daiquiri; and a third can't quite make up its mind (the siding is pumpkin orange, the trim is bright fuchsia, and the door is turquoise). And then there are the shops. A red-and-tangerine party-supply store looks like a circus tent, and an auto-parts dealer is full-body lavender...
...spend, with the easy, lovable stuff: Impressionism, and specifically Renoir. But rather than dive in at the deep end of the art market on his own--a certain prelude to drowning--Wynn found himself a guide in William Acquavella, 60, a closemouthed and formidably well-connected New York private dealer whose stockroom is one of the best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against...
Some things came by luck and were grabbed on the wing. Wynn relishes describing how he and Acquavella were in London to conclude the deal on a Tahitian Gauguin, Bathers. With time to kill, they dropped in on the small upstairs gallery of Thomas Gibson, a private dealer in Old Bond Street. And there, on an easel, was a painting that had just come in on consignment a few hours before: Degas's pastel Dancer Taking a Bow, 1887, one of the finest of his ballet scenes, which had been in one of the collections of the Rothschild family...
...seek any. Rather, it strives to present these issues in a way that is accurate and unapologetic. It's not fair that Ray was born into a form of modern day slavery. It's not fair that children on the street look up to him as a successful drug dealer. It's not fair that he is incarcerated along with a major percentage of the young black men in Washington, D.C. The point that this film tries to drive home is that solutions to these problems require action, and action requires personal responsibility...