The big banks have the further advantage of their brands, however tattered the brands may be.
Today, both men are long dead, felled in the Aids crisis along with Robert Mapplethorpe, another habituee of the area whose work is also in the show: a monochrone, tattered stars and stripes.
As a roosting marsh harrier rises from a field of barley displaying wings tattered from shotgun pellets, Nimrod Mifsud, a Maltese volunteer for the charity, says local birdwatchers take little pleasure in seeing a rare bird.
The policy of dual containment may be slightly tattered, but the United States continues to see both Iran and Iraq as threats to its interests.
Mr Mujica has eschewed the normal trappings of leadership, forgoing the presidential palace for his small ranch house in a working-class neighbourhood of Montevideo, dressing in tattered sandals and jumpers, and donating 90% of his salary to charity.
The image of unelected senators misspending taxpayers' money has done nothing for the Senate's already tattered reputation.
Posters around Beirut demanding The Truth are beginning to look tattered, even as electronic counters tick past 500 days since Hariri's death.
But his reputation, like that of the junta, was left tattered by the fiascos over currency controls and foreign business-ownership.
The little girl in a tattered pink dress stood on the church steps, crying so hard she couldn't get the words out.
In the film noir The Tattered Dress (1957), Stewart is seen in the sensational credit sequence having her dress ripped by her lover, then driving home drunk to her jealous husband.
There's something admirably forthright about Blair's willingness to do this and take the abuse, stubbornly defending his tattered corner from fairweather friends like the Mail and Telegraph, which I seem to remember being gung-ho in support for the war in 2003.
