Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone knew that Jackie's belongings would draw crowds. Sotheby's auctions of the effects of the Duchess of Windsor in 1987 and of Andy Warhol did so, and those people were not as famous and charismatic as Jackie, who hovered, Cheshire cat-like, in the public imagination for more than 30 years, her enigmatic smile evanescing into an invisible privacy where admirers were not welcome or allowed. The posthumous chance to enter this forbidden space and ooh and aah over--and maybe buy one of--Jackie's personal possessions figured to be irresistible to plenty of people, and Sotheby...
...hype and expectations fell stunningly short of what actually happened when the bidding finally began last Tuesday night. Ticket holders who had braved a gauntlet of security guards, bag searches, metal detectors and TV reporters to reach the auction room quickly realized they had boarded an elevator going nowhere...
According to Pratt, the family's agent Lane Zachary on Monday plans to begin circulating copies of manuscripts to bidders interested in the publishing and movie rights. There will be an auction to determine the eventual winner...
...YORK: Bernhard Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of Goetz's subway shooting incident. The legal action will keep authorities from Goetz's assets until at least mid-June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having...
...bidding is a lot of fun and your friends cheer you on," said Heyden, who said she placed several bids in the auction last year...