Word: dealer
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...World War II and recently returned to the owner's heirs--fetched a combined $104 million. An anonymous moneybags phoned in a $40.3 million winning bid for Paul Gauguin's Man with an Ax--a record for that artist. "We were flabbergasted by the prices," says New York art dealer Dominique Levy. "The bidding was coming from everywhere. It was an electric evening...
More often, his subjects play along with startling nonchalance. When Borat asks which type of car he should buy to attract a girl with “a shave down below,” the dealer barely skips a beat before responding, “what you want is a Corvette.” This straight-talking instinct makes for good comedy, exposing the American id in all its potential hilarity, and brutality...
...Along the way, the hidden cameras capture a Southern dinner party's dismay with Borat's bathroom habits, and the guests' reaction on the arrival of his date--a black hooker. All the marks are unaware they're being fooled, which is hard to believe, especially when a gun dealer responds to the question "What kind of a gun would you recommend to kill a Jew?" with a nonchalant "I'd recommend a 9-mm or a Glock automatic." (Baron Cohen is Jewish.) The detailed legal releases, which it seems no one ever reads, were presented to people...
Preminger, no less a wheeler-dealer than he was a producer-director, persuaded the powers-that-were to let him shoot in the Senate, which no Hollywood film had done before. That was generous of them, and foolish, since the film (and the Allen Drury novel on which it was based) portrays Washington as almost systemically corrupt. The scandal at the heart of the plot: the news that one Senator had a homosexual relationship. Really, now, who would believe that...
...dealer who had bought the paintings at the Kingsland auction was the first person to discover that one had been in the Harvard collections, Stair said. “He’s in part a hero,” Stair said of the dealer...