Word: block
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...care that among the Windsor-family items being put up on the block are a pair of silver asparagus tongs, two Portuguese silver Fu dogs and a silver vesta case for, I suppose, one's silver vesta. I don't care either, but I do think there is something crummy about the blithe auctioning off of things like love letters, diaries and personal photos. The Windsors always seemed a pair of yacht-hopping nitwits to me, and I'm fairly certain that their expressions of passion are not to be compared to Keats', much less to Jesus'. But they were...
Every day, it seems, a celebrity's something-or-other is on the block. A year ago, Albert Einstein's love/hate letters to his first wife Mileva Maric were sold at Christie's. A Christie's spokesman explained why he thought Einstein's relativity-theory manuscript went for more money than the letters. "I think Einstein will be known as a scientist," he said...
...fire at a hair salon at the Cambridge Galleria Mall led police and firefighters to evacuate the building and block traffic on JFK Street south of Mount Auburn Street...
...significance of this being the last home weekend of the careers of five seniors is imposing to consider. It marks the last basket that Allison Feaster will ever score in a Harvard hoop, as well as her last block, steal and rebound...
Like many Japanese resorts, Hakuba is essentially a world of foreign fantasy and at times has the air of stage sets from 15 different movies all collected in the same small block. Roughly 800 rococo hotels, inns and pensions crowd the village (one for every 12 residents), and at night the timbered buildings are full of trendy young couples sipping wine over gourmet French food after a long day of snowboarding wearing the latest gurobu and goguru. "This is Youngtown," marvels a Kyoto woman as she surveys a corner of the Echoland area where the Shop Jah Jah shares space...