Word: tycooning
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...image; this illusion has stuffed the Borgia Apartments with a plethora of weak, vulgar bronzes of recent pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...
...yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
...organizing the W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association. By creating 34 new teams in three major sports in the past eight years, Davidson has become an acknowledged master builder in a field that includes such lusty franchise spawners as Football and Tennis Tycoon Lamar Hunt...
...Giscard was born to a tradition of wealth and public service. One of her grandfathers was Eugène Schneider, the 19th century steel tycoon. Her father was a career military officer who fought with the French Resistance before his capture by the Gestapo and died while a prisoner at Mauthausen concentration camp. Anne-Aymone was an 18-year-old secretarial student when she met Giscard, then 26 and a promising young official in the Finance Ministry. They were married, after a brief courtship...
...estate in western England, the right schools, a grand tour of Europe at the age of 14 and a trust fund set up by her wealthy, doting parents that yielded her thousands of dollars annually. Yet last week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit...