Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifelong socialist. Yet now you are relying on market mechanisms, privatization, letting prices and interest rates find their own levels. It looks like an economic philosophy closer to Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's. What's socialist about...
...know that the word socialism smells like the devil in the U.S., but it shouldn't be that way. The Communists expropriated the word socialism, so people now identify it with Marxism-Leninism...
...parties for Malcolm Forbes? That a night's art sale could make a total of $269.5 million and yet leave its observers feeling slightly flat is perhaps a measure of the odd cultural values of our fin de siecle. "Personally," said Ainslie a week before the sale, "I would like to see more price stability -- at present levels, of course...
...less tangible than this. Quite rightly, MOMA's Varnedoe rejects the idea that "there was some mythical period, now lost, when art was seen only as the shining purity of aesthetic experience. As long as there has been art to sell, art has been something to buy." But he, like many others, is worried by "the crazy sense of disproportion in the world that puts an extra glow on the art object...
...beauty of the loan system, from the point of view of the auctioneer, is twofold. It inflates prices whether the borrower wins the painting or not: like a gambler with chips on house credit, he will bid it up. Prefinancing by the auction house artificially creates a floor, whereas a dealer who states a price sets a ceiling. And then, if the borrower defaults, the lender gets back the painting, writes off the unpaid part of the loan against tax, and can resell the work at its new inflated price...