Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glamour of Hollywood, will all play for the Los Angeles Rams. Joe Greene and his colleagues along the Pittsburgh Steelers'defensive line, plus the front four of the Minnesota Vikings, will follow the sun to Miami to sign with the Dolphins. Dozens of other stars will auction off their services every year to the highest bidder, and some cold-weather cities such as Green Bay and Buffalo won't be able to buy enough players to field a team...
Nowhere does this folk wisdom seem truer than in the field of master drawings. The springs have certainly dwindled. Fifty years ago, the appearance on the auction block of a sheet by one of the great father figures of 15th and 16th century drawing-Dürer, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo-was not uncommon. Today one would hardly be more surprised if a live dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late...
...important. What is important-and very nicely done too-is the way everyone reverts instantly to childhood in moments of crisis. Moriarty (Leo McKern) is set up as a math wizard, for example, but his blackboard is covered with a second-grader's mistakes. When he conducts an auction of the purloined parchment, he is reduced to counting on his fingers as he tries to convert francs into pounds. Later Moriarty and DeLuise (playing a hammy opera singer) squabble over the document in a manner more appropriate to four-year-olds disputing possession of a pail in a sandpile...
...just need the money," claimed Caitlin Thomas, 60, explaining her decision to put 32 love letters from her late husband, Poet Dylan Thomas, up for auction in London. "Dylan wanted us to be young and unwise forever-to be permanently naughty children. He managed this by killing himself with booze, but I was left to grow old." And poor, apparently. The poet's letters, still in copyright to his trustees, failed to attract a suitable bid and went unsold...
...wary-eyed animal at her side is Kojak, a Charolais and Aberdeen Angus steer entered in the annual livestock fair. Kojak, the property of Sir Hugh Froser (who is chairman of Harrods department store), had good reason for uneasiness. Despite his new political connection, he was put on the auction block and bought by butchers to be converted into Christmas roast beef...