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...just another business. The auction market shifts more than $4 billion a year, and its two powerhouses, Sotheby's and Christie's, control 95% of that. For decades, rising to a climax just before the great art-market crash of 1989, Brits with pinstripe suits and faces like silver teapots have been flogging the benefits of art ownership to the rich on both shores of the Atlantic: art as investment, art as social elevation, art as confirmation of status, art as relic-hunting--the whole rigmarole that has actually done more to debase the real messages and values...
...George Washington chopped down his fatheris cherry tree, threw a silver dollar clear across the Potomac River, and had a nasty case of the pox - otherwise known as syphilis...
...game is just as intense as the training. At the Fanueil Hall store, employees are strategically placed throughout the throngs of shoppers and carbon-copy outfits. The store even has a special position, iGreeter,i who stands outlined by a silver box at the entrance...
...iGirls had to have shorts above a certain length,i Gomes remembers. iIf you didnit come in with a certain pair of sandals from J.Crew, theyid force you to go home. When I left, they were implementing the New Balance rule, forcing us to buy expensive silver tennis shoes. Just the other day, I went into the Harvard square store and I saw all the guys wearing the same shoes and thought, eI hate this place.ii...
...They told me to stand in a silver square and they gave me a lacrosse stick,i Gomes recollects. iIt rocked. I was getting paid eight bucks an hour to stand there and look popular. On one of the hottest days of the summer, they asked two girls to put on bikini tops and stand in the square. They were supposed to look like they were having fun.i But not all employees were blessed with Gomesis fortune, or his good looks. Gomes recalls that they sometimes hired iscrubby girls,i who often had trouble getting scheduled during peak shifts...