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...door-to-door beauty-products business into an army of 14,000 Masterwomen that resembles more a religious cult than the Avon sorority. Granada aims to buy her way to social acceptance via the stock market and art patronage, and Thomas' depiction of the scramble of ars gratia ego is both deeply knowledgeable and unnerving...
...inward. Because their prayers and rituals had to be transmitted secretly among illiterate peasants, they slowly became garbled. Over the years the words were repeated while the meaning was forgotten, though some prayers retained a discernible Latin antecedent: "Ame Maria karassa binno domisu terikobintsu . . ." obviously derives from "Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta...
...Silverman network also has a fondness for dogs. Here's Boomer, the saga of the world's smartest mutt, is already on the schedule, and next year it may be frolicking with the world's three smartest Dobermans, the detective stars of-yes-The Dobermans. Arfs gratia arfis...
...valuables commanded such audiences, such publicity, such prices. While anything that is relatively rare is sure to fetch a pretty penny at auction these days, things of beauty and lasting worth-"objects of virtue" to the trade-are going for sums that would boggle the I of Claudius. Ars gratia auctionis. Throughout the U.S. and the rest of the West, once listless salesrooms thrum with auctiophiliacs in search of a piece of the past; the top firms hold several simultaneous sales a day six days a week. In 1979 Sotheby's and Christie's, the two London-based...
...Edith Gratia Stedman, director of the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau for 24 years and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O B E), died on July 16, in Boston...