Word: patronizers
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...investment adviser Richard Salomon of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, and turned up at dinner at the very chic Nobu in New York City with real estate developer Jerry Speyer and dealmaker Leon Black of Apollo Advisors. As he casts about for a new career, he will serve as a patron of the arts in Manhattan, chairing a Municipal Art Society awards dinner in March and a gala for PEN, a writers' group, in April...
...before turning a profit, and that's in a proven market where people actually pay for content. We need courage if we're going to create something wonderful. The New Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time had a paltry circulation of 2,700--perhaps, as James Thurber once pointed out, because it started out so sophomoric and error prone. I'm not saying Stim could ever have grown into the New Yorker. Or maybe I am. The point...
...know more 'out' men than I do women. Why?" asks one bathroom patron...
Though Tiepolo worked nearly all his life in Venice, he spent his last eight years in Madrid, at the court of the enlightened, relatively liberal monarch Carlos III, who would later be Goya's first royal patron. Tiepolo's influence completely pervades Goya's early work, particularly the tapestry designs in the Prado, and it continues in the late work. The title page of Goya's Caprichos, that famous image of a dreaming man around whose head owls and bats and other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia...
According to Richard V. Scali, the commission's executive officer, if a cab driver accepts a patron who has just left a hotel, he is obliged to charge the flat rate unless the patron asks for a metered rate...