Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bess and Sara. Winfrey says she has come to know each of them personally and calls them in at will to guide her in her work. The spirits began visiting her a few years ago, shortly after she bought the property records of various plantations at a Sotheby's auction. A collector of slave memorabilia, Winfrey cherishes the slave papers because these documents serve as the best vessel for connecting her--through name, age and price--to the real human legacy of slavery. While filming Beloved, she kept the slave inventory in her trailer on the set. She dedicated scenes...
...bikes we sell are pretty much fixer-uppers, so people expect to put some work into them after the auction," said Tomlinson, who bought a bike herself...
PBHA Vice President Jason Q. Purnell '99 said the auction is also a great way for the organization to get publicity...
KEEPSAKES ARE FOREVER Pop culture hit the auction block, with megasales of iconic music and movie memorabilia...
FIRM ART Last week came reports that two companies, Lake, a Japanese finance firm, and Reader's Digest, have decided to auction off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art, like the Modigliani to the right. Half of the Fortune 500 have collections of consequence. Among the largest collectors: Equitable, which owns hundreds of works, including murals by Thomas Hart Benton; Pepsico, famed for its sculpture garden with pieces by Henry Moore; Paine Webber, which has works by the likes of Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns; Sara Lee, which just gave some of its best items to museums...