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...salvage yards communicate via an auto-parts telephone hot line. Some hot lines are statewide; others reach yards and body shops as far away as Florida or California. "I'm looking for a '91 Cadillac Seville left door," broadcasts one merchant. Before long, another responds, "I can fill that order." Fine, but does the seller have it in stock, wonders Kane, or will he arrange for a special-order theft? There's no way to tell, which makes the monitoring of hot lines by law enforcement virtually useless...
...four truly important figures of postwar European art -- along with Giacometti, Bacon and Beuys -- the Hirshhorn has taken the right tack, for it's the early work that justifies the claim. Dubuffet came to art late. Until 1943, when he turned 41, he had been a businessman, a wine merchant. His career illustrates the energy that a late flowering can produce, both in art and in its attendant ideas. Dubuffet is, of course, widely known for his espousal of what he called Art Brut, or "raw art," the work of those untutored and compulsive creators now called "outsider artists...
Notes Smith, "John Harvard himself was a British merchant whose gift to Harvard was designed to reduce criticism of how much money he made off Massachusetts Bay Colony...
Deborah A. Daniels, who is currently negotiating with HRE for a possible kiosk, would seem to fit the description of the merchant officials said they hope to attract. Daniels said she hand-paints and decoupages (glues on cut-out shapes and varnishes) step-stools, hatboxes, serving trays and clay pots...
Rafsanjani's power base in the Majlis is made up of a small clique of technocrats and the bazaari merchant class, of which he is a member. The bazaaris were the key to the overthrow of the Shah, and now they want the President to live up to his promises to privatize industry and liberalize the centralized economy. On the other hand, Islamic radicals are still the moral guardians of the revolution, and they oppose reforms that might endanger social benefits and let in greater Western influence. They sometimes accuse Rafsanjani of being too liberal on cultural matters...