Word: patrons
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Saddam also fancies himself as an Arab version of Otto von Bismarck. In ! Europe more than 100 years ago, the Iron Chancellor fused German-speaking principalities into one mighty nation. Saddam remembers as well his patron Gamel Abdel Nasser, who organized Arab pride and resentment against Western hegemony. Saddam's ambition has been to use Iraqi muscle and achievement to unite the Arabs and thereby re-create the vast Abbasid Empire, which lasted 500 years. In that sense, the war in the gulf is transpiring in a time warp. It is a retrospective vision...
People whose jobs are still secure feel the pressure in other ways -- particularly if they are trying to buy or sell a home. California real estate agents have taken to burying statues of St. Joseph, the patron saint of family and home, in the yards of clients in hopes of changing their luck with prospective buyers. "One of my agents heard about it, and his client wanted to try it," says real estate broker Charles Lamb. "She got three offers in 10 days...
...first, a greasy down-and-dirty tousle once displayed by actor Mickey Rourke, can be achieved by gel overload or shampoo avoidance. For the gangster look, men can turn for inspiration to the oily Mafia sleekness seen in GoodFellas and the forthcoming Godfather III; actor Andy Garcia is its patron saint...
...supply lower-level dealers with pagers and cellular telephones that were difficult for narcs to overhear, Michael Harris set up a front company, Telesis Electrical Co. He even became a patron of the arts. His money- laundering theatrical production company invested $385,000 in the Broadway production of Checkmates, which ran for five months...
...difference between fiction and myth is that people do not feel impelled to act on fictions, whereas myths are a guide to life. In this sense, one could say that Ryder, in the process of becoming the very prototype of the saintly visionary, patron of outsiders, pure of spirit and attuned to the great rhythms of nature, became America's first mythic artists' artist...