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...debate last Monday night, she promised to withdraw from the race if Crane could prove he earned only $130,000 a year from Merkert Enterprises. She said that on mortgage application papers prepared two years ago, he claimed an income more than double that amount...
Hampers' campaign has also questioned Crane's relationship with food broker Gene Merkert, who employs him to perform what he says is a small amount of consulting work each year. She charges that Crane's friendship with the president of Merkert Enterprises has led to conflicts of interest. She has also said he works for the broker's firm during office time, at the Commonwealth's expense...
...Hampers' greatest coups was forcing Crane to admit that he received more than the annual $130,000 he claimed from Merkert...
...More than any other American artist of the 20th century," writes its director, Tom Armstrong, in the catalogue, "Willem de Kooning has added to the vocabulary of painting, altered the perception of what painting represents." Jorn Merkert's catalogue essay asserts that de Kooning "played perhaps the decisive role" in the development of abstract expressionism (notwithstanding de Kooning's own generous tribute to Pollock as the one who "broke the ice"). The purpose of canonization is well in hand; once again-though one must except Curator Paul Cummings' measured and enlightening essay on de Kooning...
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