Word: torii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saji inherited his love for birds, along with his company, from his father, Shinjiro Torii, who at the age of 20 founded Suntory (the very name means "three birds"). In 75 years the company has expanded its output from one dessert wine to 118 products; it now holds more than 70% of the whisky market in Japan, which is second in size only to the U.S. market. With his own nest well feathered, Saji is able to turn to nonbusiness efforts. He sponsors two existing bird sanctuaries, plus another being established around one of his distilleries outside Kyoto. His company...
Whereas most of Tokyo's 500 galleries are one-room affairs, Marlborough, typically, is preparing to open in a palatial house in the fashionable Tokyo district of Hiroo. Massively funded-its Japanese stockholders include the heads of Sony and Panasonic-Marlborough-Torii Ltd. seems prepared, as its Japanese president, former Adman Tatsuya Torii, put it, to "bring internationalism to the Tokyo art market once and for all." This will not make the intruder popular. But then, Marlborough has never made a virtue of popularity. It is -as exasperated rival dealers are wont to point out-the General Motors...
...whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with a lid instead of hanging it framed on a wall; that is how Japanese collectors are used to packing their scrolls. "Lloyd-san," purrs his Tokyo partner Torii, "almost seems to understand Zen." Marlborough prints the most elaborate color catalogues in the business for its shows, and accompanies a major exhibition-David Smith, say, or Francis Bacon-with a campaign of discreet lobbying with collectors. It is indicative of Marlborough's reputation for secrecy-and for giving...
...permanently frozen from a few inches below the surface to a depth of 1,300 ft. Gas lines snake through the settlement resting on half-sections of 55-gal. oil drums; at intersections, the pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval Lab. In the summer, however...