Word: patronizing
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Among the distinctions that painters covet--gallery shows, a high price for their work at auction, placement in a museum, a patron--being cited by the Guinness Book of World Records is not a must-have. But JANE WOOSTER SCOTT received that honor recently when she was named the "Most Reproduced Artist in America." "I heard I was closing in on the title; for a while I was running neck and neck with Picasso," says Wooster Scott, whose work appears on jigsaw puzzles, Christmas cards and calendars. "I still can't believe I beat him." (Pablo's heirs can take...
...decided that offense is the best tactic when it comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties. "The views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which would combine the less-than...
Stuart Rosenberg has been a Bow patron for several years, and as a Coop member he says it was his duty to show the board that evicting the bar was not in the best interests of all Coop members...
...failed to notice on your Far Side Page-a-Day calendar, tomorrow is Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, the patron saint of Ireland who has been dead for about 1,500 years, is set to be memorialized and lionized once again...
...Chicago River green, and the color won't wash away until mid-June. In New York City, Rudy, Hillary and all the pols will be stumping about on the campaign trail waving clovers. So what can you do here in Cambridge to show the Irish some love on their patron saint's birthday? Visit them one-by one in an old-fashioned bar crawl, Irish style...