Word: rewardingly
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Instead, the Gardner offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the return of the paintings. This ransom money -- "reward" is a euphemism -- may work, if it does not gum up the investigation with half the flakes and crazies from Boston to Miami. But it does not dispose of the ghastly possibility that one of the greatest of Vermeer's paintings (along with other things of lesser significance) may be destroyed by the thieves as too hot to handle...
...theft is the blue-collar side of the glittering system whereby art, through the '80s, was promoted into crass totems of excess capital. Sotheby's and Christie's tacitly recognized this last week when, after conferring with the museum board and the FBI, they volunteered the $1 million reward money for the Gardner -- a touching p.r. gesture, like a cigarette company giving money to a cancer ward...
Museum Director Anne Hawley said the reward would be paid, no questions asked, and indicated it could even be paid to the thieves if it led to the safe recovery of the art works...
BOSTON--Officials at the Gardner Museum announced yesterday a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of a dozen art treasures stolen over the weekend...
...said that Sotheby's and Christie's, the international art auction houses, had agreed to underwrite the cost of the reward by using their own resources and soliciting help from the art community around the world...