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...flair for business. He is also a showman, and every detail of Marlborough's presentation comes under his supervision. Nothing gets left to chance or whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with a lid instead of hanging it framed on a wall; that is how Japanese collectors are used to packing their scrolls. "Lloyd-san," purrs his Tokyo partner Torii, "almost seems to understand Zen." Marlborough prints the most elaborate color catalogues in the business for its shows, and accompanies a major exhibition-David...
...order to prod the laggards into action, the U.S. State Department recently circulated to some 300 American companies that operate in South Africa a set of "fair employment guidelines." The State Department report subtly reminds the companies that, apartheid notwithstanding, no South African law puts a lid on the wages that can be paid to blacks...
Salisbury, who visited China last year, said Mao and President Nixon are moving towards a Sino-American detente primarily to put a lid on the arms race. "China is the number three nuclear power in the world, and agreements between the U.S. and Russia are useless without including China," he said...
Judged by many to be the world's greatest dramatic tenor, Melchior actually began his career as a baritone. For four years he labored without distinction. Then a colleague observed that he was "not a baritone, but a tenor with a lid on." Melchior gradually made the switch, but he had to work another decade developing his technique as a tenor...
...piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls on" ($15), some plastic table mats (25? each), some old birth-control pills (two for 5?) and a familiar object hung over the fireplace and labeled, "Historic second-hand toilet seat and lid used at one time or other by George McGovern, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Gore Vidal, Yevtushenko and Gloria Steinem. $50." "All this fancy stuff doesn't appeal to me any more," Barbara explained after netting $15,000. Her next appearance: a memoir entitled Laughing All the Way, to be published...