Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Architecture has been called "the mother art." The First Family is supposedly a patron of the arts. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that their new home in Virginia should be so lacking in enlightened architectural design. One can only assume that its future occupants feel that this is a progressive, New Frontier type of house...
...Chosen. Though final identification was only possible by prying patron from chair, the better to read the gilt-embossed name card affixed to it, some players could be told without a program. Bigtime buyers for stores or manufacturers, from both the U.S. and Europe, tended to be short, squat, greying and myopic; they wore lumps of coats with muskrat collars, orthopedic shoes and chewed Sen-Sen by the handful. Lesser buyers, reluctant to pay the heavy cost of admission (often a promise to buy as much as $1,700 worth of merchandise) lurked around showroom exits, approaching departing guests with...
...deductibility of charitable contributions has led to a colorful abuse: buying a painting, having it appraised later on at a much higher value, then donating it to charity and claiming a deduction at the full inflated figure. The IRS is currently battling the claim of an art patron who seems to have refined this device even further-by painting her own deductions. The revenuers claim that she was deducting up to $30,000 a year for contributing her own nonobjective paintings to art museums. The principal evidence of the market value of the paintings is that one was sold...
...artist, all his exploits have tremendous artistry. He paints a hideous mural of the raising of Lazurus in the flat of a vacationing patron, and finishes just in time to cover a large hole in the floor, his work, too, with several yards of Persian carpet before the millionaire returns from Jamaica, In a Marx Brothers movie the patron would (naturally) fall through the hole; in the world of Gully Jimson, the man, his wife, and his secretary stumble onto the rug and sink, majustically and inevitably, towards the floor beneath...
...Writer & Patron. Things came hard to him from the beginning. A Mexican with enough Irish in him to make Quinn his real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping...