Word: solvents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a story that every art collector, big and little, dreams of. At the flea market in Paris, a West German businessman buys a painting of two sunbathing nudes for $40. The picture is grimy, so he scrubs it with a strong solvent. Behold, a blue shimmer of paint appears below the surface, and a professional restorer uncovers a remarkable signature-"Claude Monet, 1877." Now fully restored, the canvas appears to be one of Monet's largest impressionistic versions of Paris' Gare St. Lazare. But how did Monet ever get covered over? Easy: it was the vogue...
...frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter realities of contemporary life. By implying that businessmen had betrayed the radical spirit of the American Revolution, he made...
...Saddle Sores. Oppenheimer deals in cattle and feed transactions that last year amounted to $15 million and yielded nearly $1,000,000 in fees and commissions. He caters to a solvent and not exactly saddle-sore clientele (among past and present customers: Banker Robert Lehman, Comedian Jack Benny, Actress Joan Fontaine). For would-be instant cattlemen, Oppenheimer will assemble a herd, buy a spread, hire a manager and oversee the whole operation. "Real crapshooters," as Oppenheimer calls clients who are able and willing to win or lose as much as 50% on their money in a single year...
...present site, and other locations where the festival would actually be welcome are thought to be more desireable. Nevertheless, the continuance of a festival at all is, in many ways, becoming contingent upon groups and personalities playing rock blues who can draw enough people to make it financially solvent. And these very groups and the people they attract are subversive of the festival as a folk festival, and naturally...
Carbon tetrachloride (CC14) is one of the simplest of chemicals and one of the most potent. It is a great fire extinguisher, a powerful pesticide, will dry off dew-shorted spark plugs, and is such a versatile solvent that it will vaporize the grease stains out of a dress or tar from the rug in no time...