Word: middleman
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...bemused, sardonic connoisseur of everything that suits his appetite. A gourmet when it comes to pheasant, a gourmand when it comes to tamales, a consumer of fine wines and Santa Ines rum, he can deliver laughably erudite and baroque speeches or lead Indian troops on a jungle campaign. His middleman position allows him to see Europe in the light of America, and America in the light of Europe. From the first page, when he looks out his window at the Arc d 'Triomphe and thinks of the volcano that overlooks his own capital, he continually sees affinities and contrasts between...
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...