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...theater, that elaborate and (to most non-Japanese) incomprehensibly subtle combination of masked mime, costume, song and dance, received its classical form under the Tokugawa aegis. The family collection, housed in the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, is generally acknowledged to be the greatest private hoard of Japanese art in the world. In the area of Nō costumes, it is unsurpassable. The Japan Society show, which opened at Washington's National Gallery of Art in April and will travel to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth in the summer, is therefore a unique event: most of these...
Heidelberger, 60, proprietor of a 40-acre spread called the Musket Ranch and Trading Post, began collecting used tires before World War II. He sold his original hoard for a penny a pound in the wartime rush to find desperately needed rubber supplies. The war ended, but Heidelberger's passion for tires did not. Today, after more than 30 years of relentless collecting, he figures he has between 8 million and 12 million. His tires cover ten acres, rise to a 40-ft. peak and are a local landmark...
Since the 1920s, owners have arduously maintained that the reserve clause was necessary to insure an equal distribution of skill among teams. Otherwise, they argued, the big-city clubs, who can profit more from fielding a winner, would hoard all the talent. The player retention system protected player assets of all franchises in the league...
...dying with the auto. One way out for the suburbanites is to form associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There is not much in the way of refrigeration except for the snowbanks, and then the dogs must be fought...
Mark A. Creatura '80 said he plans "o hoard Sweet'n'Low and sell it for a profit...