Word: lootings
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...Belle Epoque, and artists saw no reason to deprive them of it. Particularly strong was the appetite for historical works in which stern Antiquity framed the goddess Pornography. By far the hottest example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This...
...politicians, one has to assume that former Louisiana Governors Huey and Earl Long, the first politician-kings of the banana republic of Louisiana, were watching last week. With testimony about cash left in Dumpsters and hidden under frozen ducks, and good old-fashioned bagmen bundling and transporting the loot, it all seemed refreshingly honest compared with the deceit of PACs, soft money and other modern-day shams. Edwards' wife Candy, who at 35 looks young enough to be his granddaughter, took it all in from the front row. His son Stephen had an even better seat...
...GIACCHETTO went into the wrong business. Had he chosen to be a talent agent instead of a money manager, his unscrupulous business practices and knack for attracting famous clients would have augured a bright future. Instead, last week, Giacchetto, 37, was hit with civil and criminal charges for allegedly looting millions of dollars from the accounts of his high-profile roster of actors, artists and musicians. He faces up to 20 years in prison. During the past several years, armed with charm and advantageous connections, Giacchetto managed to accumulate clients such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Courteney Cox Arquette...
...complex as trading," he says. "In trading, there's this wonderful cowboy thing to it." Both love the game of trading. But, after his freshman year Liu grabbed his next three years of tuition money--some $90,000 bucks-saddled up his horse ready to lasso in the loot...
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