Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense. This inept critic is a figure of Chaplinesque pathos: a tastemaker totally lacking in taste, a perpetual target of the avant-garde's custard pies...
...Italy, policemen launched a search for Camillo Crociani, former president of a state-affiliated holding company, who is wanted to answer charges that he served as a middleman in one of Lockheed's deals in Italy...
...Baath coup, taking billions of Syrian pounds with them, are being wooed back. Syria is also permitting the importation of luxury consumer goods like Mercedes-Benz limousines (Damascus price: $25,000-550,000) for a new millionaire class that has grown rich on booming land prices and middleman business. Foreigners are now allowed to enter Syria freely and tourism is encouraged; two luxury hotels are being built in Damascus. The streets of the dusty capital, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities, are clogged with automobiles, many of them ten to 15 years...
...that most mysterious and nimble of all entrepreneurs-the middleman. The forks he sold to the Army were actually purchased from Navy surplus...
...purse may eventually prove to be mere mad money. Before he broke camp in Pennsylvania, he was visited by Mandungu Bula Nyati, Foreign Minister of Zaïre. Bula helped promote Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" against Foreman. He now wants to establish Ali as the middleman in all business deals between Zaïre and U.S. firms. Ali's share could reach $100 million a year...