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...loan assumed by the Weesner team when it took control of Guterma's 90.000 shares of Bon Ami stock. But among other offenses, Tel-A-Sign and the Webbs accused Weesner of having used $1,581 in company funds to pay for a specially built cage for his pet macaw...
...Sign (which lost $455,000 in the past fiscal year). Bitterly Weesner charged that Pat Webb had taken advantage of her position as his secretary to steal company records, and was now indulging in "distortion of those records, double-dealing, broken agreements." As for the cottage-priced bird cage, Weesner snapped: "Sure I have this macaw. This bird and I take a shower together every morning. But Bon Ami didn't pay for the cage. Nobody paid for it. In fact, the man isn't paid yet. That bill is too high...
...cattle hang from brutal hooks and the butchers inspect her expertly, as though she were a carcass too. She flutters to her manager (Dominique Davray), a hard-faced businesswoman who comforts her meticulously but unemotionally, as though smoothing a 500-franc note. She flies back to her gilded cage in time to preen and twitter for the man who keeps her for the same reasons he keeps a second car: convenience and ostentation. Her songwriters arrive, and the canary mechanically warbles a few love songs she has sung a hundred times before without a pulse of feeling; but suddenly...
...learned that Muzak would come oozing into elevators and lobby. The invasion, he decided, would destroy the bold effect of his sculpture. With the directors' permission, he called on Cage for help...
...Composer Cage decided to "make use of the things that were right there," i.e., the Muzak speakers and some closed-circuit television cameras set up to watch the lobby. Cage wanted the TV to trigger the Muzak whenever people passed by or got in and out of elevators. But such familiar Muzak as Stardust and I'm in the Mood for Love would become electronically pulverized and filtered if Cage had his way, and there would be times when the traffic was light and there would be no music at all. The directors rejected the idea. Explained a vice...