Word: autographic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comforting to know we're halfway through it. But one sure sign it's a bear market in collectibles at least -- whatever stocks may do -- is that I recently got a call from a historic-documents salesman. When someone calls out of the blue to sell you Abe Lincoln autographs, you can be pretty sure times are tough in autograph land...
...college kid reading a script; he was a former curator of the Smithsonian. Still, I was getting all set to find some delicate way off the phone ("Oh, gosh, the ambulance is here") when I remembered the Marilyn letter. Forget Abe Lincoln ("Dear Sir: Herewith I send you my autograph, which you request. Yours Truly, A. Lincoln": $5,000). What about Marilyn...
...they are seldom shy about intentions. Recalls Miles McPherson, a former pro-football defensive back turned preacher: "When we went to clubs, women would be competing in any way to get to us, and it is very easy to take advantage of that situation. Some said they wanted an autograph, and then they'd ask you to sign their breasts...
...Ruth will personally autograph boxes of condoms that will be distributed after the speech...
...hysteria around public figures is unhealthy," he says. "The inner landscape of their personalities is barren." A mother approaches, dragging along a shy three-year-old. "Are you the famous children's singer Raffi?" she gushes. "I was," he answers. Gently, he declines to sing or / sign an autograph. As the irked mother huffs off, he blows a kiss to her child, who smiles knowingly...