Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate loss to art's hyperinflation may be wider and 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...
...turns out that he's only a superdealer. These guys create price levels for themselves. They put one painting in a sale and bid it up to huge levels. And the artist loses control of his work, while his relations with the dealer he has worked with so long go for nothing, absolutely nothing. We are just pawns...
...this maneuver? Because, says a bank source who analyzed the lease after it was issued, Bond had found a tax loophole. Under Australian tax law, you could lease any asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such...
Holtz also possesses the ability to make young people believe in themselves. His sharply honed self-deprecation is designed in part to demonstrate to his players that if a 98-lb. weakling like him can succeed, surely they can. Holtz likes to tell his coaches, "If you preach something long enough, people are going to believe it. Especially in our case, where it's true...
That's because goal-oriented Lou Holtz is on a mission. He wants to win his second consecutive national championship, although he would never freely admit it. But he quietly asked coaches like Bill Walsh how they tried to avoid a letdown after their teams won championships. How long can he keep it up? His answer is pure Holtz, all deceptive diffidence and then steely follow-through. "I don't think we can win every game," he says carefully. "Just the next...