Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auction conducted in Dallas by the RTC, the federal agency selling off assets of failed S&Ls, six golf resorts in three states, with a total of 315 holes, were sold for $395.4 million, well above what they were expected to bring...
...slightly damaged drawing by Michelangelo, Holy Family with the Infant Baptist on the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, brought $6.32 million at auction at Christie's in London -- a world record for an old-master drawing. The buyer was the supremely well endowed J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California...
...Freshman year, I cut my hair for a formal," he says. "After that, however, I went about two and a half years without cutting my hair. In the end, I auctioned it off at the Winthrop auction and the highest bidder got to shave my head. We raised $500 for charity...
...fraction-of-an-inch-long slivers of wood said to be pieces of Christ's Cross -- previously authenticated as relics by the Vatican -- sold at auction for more than $18,000 in Paris. Though the proceeds went to charity, the Vatican called the sale a possible...
...Brown in 1992, categorically denies that the show was rushed: "The pictures that have been chosen were very carefully reviewed by a conservation committee. Some were rejected because their condition was fragile. There has been no major conservation." In an interview published in last month's issue of Art & Auction, Glanton (who is black) tried to nuke his critics with the claim that they were impelled by racism. Walter Annenberg entered the fray with the ponderous declamation that the hundred or so students who, headed by an engineer named Nick Tinari, are now seeking a court injunction to prevent...