Inside, the collection of Indian and Scottish art that she has amassed with her Glaswegian husband — mostly landscapes and Gauguinesque still-lifes — is displayed on cream-colored walls.
It is money he has amassed with the same care to details that he gives to the murders his villains commit in, say, their third-rate hotel rooms.
It also raises a serious political question: how well has Mr Cheney used the power he has amassed with such Machiavellian cunning?In 2000 he was widely seen as the conservative movement's answer to Washington's legendary wise men, such as Dean Acheson and George Kennan.
The opening of the Broad museum on Sept. 20 will complete a 36-year bank shot in which founder Eli Broad bounced from one major L.A. art museum to another, with controversy at every stop, before concluding that the collection of contemporary art he has amassed with his wife, Edythe, should have a home of its own.
Ultimately, in 1941, Yale University accepted the collection of hundreds of works that she had amassed with Duchamp and had, up to that point, stored in her home.
By then, she said, she had grown frustrated with what she described as the authorities' unwillingness to study the huge file she had amassed with the stories of 20 to 30 people who had been approached online.
By 1996, one developer, Mike Ingram, had amassed with his business partners 18,000 acres — an area larger than the island of Manhattan — most of it purchased for $500 an acre or less.
Natasha Gelman, who died on Saturday in Cuernavaca, Mexico, gave the museum the entire trove of 85 works by Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Balthus, Modigliani and two dozen other masters that she had amassed with her husband, Jacques, over the last 50 years.
"A billion dollars ain't what it used to be," he said in 1980 after silver stakes he had amassed with two brothers, Herbert and Lamar, fell to $10.80 from $50.35 an ounce.
Four years ago Wall Street saw IAC with good reason as a company adrift, a shapeless, directionless assortment of Internet-based businesses Diller had amassed with little regard for whether they belonged together.
On the boarder, Israeli troops have amassed with tanks, bulldozers, missiles, and planes.
