Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin Benito was a Basque peasant boy who had hoped for fame as an artist. When he failed at that, he turned to art-doctoring, two years ago became one of the eight official restorers in Madrid's museum, the Prado. On the side, he haunted junk shops looking for castoff paintings-cleaning, patching and touching them up for resale at a tidy profit. One day in Toledo's rastro (flea market) he came across a rare find: a filthy five-by-ten-inch scrap of an old painting that looked like an authentic bit of 17th Century...
Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...
Like its hefty predecessors, jumbo-size New Directions XI is a literary junk shop where table after table full of crusty, dusty, doggedly experimental writing will discourage all but the hardiest. But those who do not mind shopping hard for their literary fare will stumble on a few things worth the eyestrain...