Word: fisherfolk
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...Fisherfolk are a passionate lot, and Jacobs is one of them. The son of a Minneapolis junkman, Jacobs learned to spot value early in life, and by the 1980s he was plying that trade on Wall Street as a corporate raider, even making a run at Walt Disney. In 1992 he made a different play, buying most of the junk bonds of yacht builder Carver, which had used the high-priced debt to gobble up a portfolio of boat brands and got into deep trouble when recession hit. When Carver's owners called Jacobs to negotiate with their new partner...
...almost right. He came to the medium late: he was 37 and a mature artist. A distinct air of the salon, of the desire for a "major" utterance that leads to an overworked surface, clings to some of the early watercolors--in particular, the paintings of fisherfolk he did during a 20-month stay in the northern English coastal village of Cullercoats in 1881-82. Those robust girls, simple, natural, windbeaten and enduring, planted in big boots with arms akimbo against the elemental planes of sea, rock and sky, are also images of a kind of moralizing earnestness that...
...best, however, not to look down. The jade-green water that laps the shores is slimy to the touch, glinting with an oily iridescence and dotted with tourist flotsam and jetsam of which carrier bags and lumps of polystyrene are among the least noxious. The fisherfolk who invite visitors aboard their sampan settlements with offers of rice wine or bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen...