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Fifty Somali poachers armed with automatic weapons came nosing around the rhino refuge at Lewa Downs. "But we put out the message that if they came in, a few of them would have to die along with us," says Anna Merz. Under the driver's seat in her car, she carries a spike-headed club. She is not licensed to carry a gun, but she employs guards with old Enfield rifles to patrol her fenced-in 7,500-acre refuge, where approximately 16 rhinos live...
...link between such things and the surrealist delight in dream images is the theme of this show, which contrasts old curiosities with a range of modern work that runs from Joseph Cornell boxes to a weirdly beautiful reflection on nature and culture by the contemporary Italian sculptor Mario Merz, involving a motorbike with buffalo horns for handlebars, a zebra's head and a string of neon numbers...
...thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name was a fragment of a printed phrase advertising the Kommerz-und Privat-Bank, but it became generic. In these works, cubist ambiguity, constructivist utopianism and a sweet irreverence that was entirely Schwitters' own are knotted together as a gift to the future. The idea of the urban poet...
Wall Street also has been deciding that now is the right time to buy. Energy stocks have been among the best performers since fears of an all-out price war began ebbing last month. Says Merz Peters, an energy analyst for Brown Bros., Harriman: "Everybody's portfolio was underrepresented in oils." And for investors with a taste for a different speculation, futures contracts in crude oil began trading last month on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The two exchanges hope that the new contracts, which cover oil for future delivery, will...
Anheuser-Busch says the Brinkley ads are partly a play for the female market. Explains Senior Product Manager Robert Merz: "We decided to showcase a woman in this new commercial because 50% of the light-beer drinkers are women." But G. Robert Holmen, who produces the ads for competing Miller Lite, insists that Natural Light is only using Madison Avenue's oldest pitch of all. Sniffs he: "This is the last gasp for Natural Light. They are relying on sex to sell the product." Shameful...