Word: bustingly
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...hear the pro scouts tell it, the 1965 college football season was a bust...
ROSE BOWL OR BUST and DAUGHERTY
...bust had not escaped the Metropolitan's eye. Three times, Met Director James J. Rorimer dropped by Parke-Bernet to examine the piece with his hand lens. "We've been burned before, and I wanted to be sure," he explained, then with relish recounted his role: "I just kind of moseyed along, looking casually here and there. When I noticed a man near by watching me examine the statue, I quickly refocused on the tapestry behind...
Rorimer was not the only one cloaking his intentions in mystery. By chance, Art Dealer Fowles, now 80 and retired, happened by Parke-Bernet, spotted the bust he had bought 45 years before. He decided to buy it for the Metropolitan "so that it would get the glory it deserves." To hide his hand, Fowles sent his stepson to do his bidding; the Met sent a junior curator. All that kept the price from going sky-high was that each party thought that the final bid had been his; only later did Fowles learn that the auctioneer had awarded...
...period and of great value." The Met will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...