2009年1月11日 星期日

scion, inimitable, deaccession

Toyota, Needing Change, Taps a Scion to Lead
Toyota's senior board members have selected Akio Toyoda as the company's next president, according to people familiar with the matter.

這Scion是雙關語 因為該公司有同名之車系



Another Deaccession Session

Still more on the debate over whether it can ever be acceptable for a museum to sell work from its permanent collection to pay its bills.
Over at his Art Law Blog, the New York attorney Donn Zaretsky has what you might call a throw-all-the-pieces-in-the-air contribution from Adrian Ellis, who heads the arts consulting firm AEA Consulting, which on its website lists many museums among its clients.


on Page 23: " ... It needed more than patronage to create the classical parliamentary system of Georgian England. This is not to deny Walpole's own inimitable talents"


inimitable
adjective
very unusual or of very high quality and therefore impossible to copy:
He was describing, in his own inimitable style/way, how to write a best-selling novel.
She appeared at the Oscar's wearing one of Versace's inimitable creations.



deaccession

v.-sioned-sion·ing-sionsv.tr.
To remove and sell (a work of art) from a museum's collection, especially in order to purchase other works of art: “He also denied that … friends of the museum were permitted to buy … pieces that were deaccessioned” (New York Times).
v.intr.
To remove a work of art from a museum's collection and sell it.
deaccession de'ac·ces'sion n.

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noun [C] LITERARY
a young member of a rich and famous family:
He's the scion of a very wealthy newspaper-publishing family.

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