Word: ouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As for the propriety of Sotheby's practices, Ainslie says, "Our procedures follow every regulation required of us. We proudly market our financial services. There is a suggestion that financing is immoral or wrong. That is an elitist view that we frankly find ridiculous."
Sotheby's feels it is being arraigned for the crime of high success. David Nash, head of its Fine Arts division, told the Washington Post that critics, far from being elitist, have "a hostile proletarian attitude toward our business." (Let 'em eat Braque.) But auction-house pretensions to be self...
Kirk Varnedoe, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, confesses that he (like most of his colleagues) is haunted by the image of the big collector looking at his Van Gogh over the fireplace, the picture that, like thousands of others in America, was promised to a museum -- as Irises...
The lawyers reported that they could not be sure, based on the papers shown them, who owned it. It seemed to be owned jointly owned by Dallhold, Sotheby's and two Hong Kong corporations. (This conflicts with Sotheby's insistence that it had, and has, no ownership of any kind...
Holtz also possesses the ability to make young people believe in themselves. His sharply honed self-deprecation is designed in part to demonstrate to his players that if a 98-lb. weakling like him can succeed, surely they can. Holtz likes to tell his coaches, "If you preach something long...