Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christie's, its more decorous rival, came to New York 13 years later and has been more cautious about expanding worldwide. (Sotheby's has 42 international bases, Christie's 29.) Not totally tongue in cheek, Christie's maintains that "Sotheby's is a businessman pretending to be a gentleman, while Christie's is a gentleman pretending to be a businessman...
...Western fine arts auction market into retail stores and enables Japanese buyers to place bids for, say, an over-the-counter Constable. When Wilson retires as Sotheby's chairman in February, he will be succeeded by his cousin, the Earl of Westmorland, who is an equally innovative businessman. "I am sure," says Westmorland, "the auction game is going to grow more and more popular...
...locale is Africa. Reporters are bee-swarming on the scent of deep trouble in the emergent nation of Kambawe. The dictator, President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans...
Arnold saw Arnold the Businessman...
...habit of greatness, idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or Mr. Arnold. That meant something to Hercules, it meant that Arnold was more than a weightlifter or an actor or a businessman or an author--Arnold was Arnold. Suddenly Hercules desperately wanted a pair of blue armadillo boots...