Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Millionaire John Dyson, 43, brought a $6 million war chest to New York's Democratic Senate primary, as well as the encouragement of Governor Mario Cuomo and New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Dyson's opponent Mark Green, 41, a former consumer advocate with Ralph Nader's Congress Watch, had just $800,000, most of it raised from small contributions through what Green called his "Mark of Dimes" campaign. Just before the election, Dyson blanketed the airwaves with commercials, while Green managed to get only a couple of short spots onto the TV screen. Yet when the polls closed last...
Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...
...slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early American cherry oxbow chest spinning in the air all morning. Withington is 68, merely mellow for the antiques dodge, a country dance in which the old outfoot the young because they have had time to learn a trade whose secret is endless learning. And to be sure, an intuitive understanding of acquisitive lust so sweet...
Jokes are not going to pull another thousand out of the air this time, however, and Withington's sure instinct tells him not to upstage the oxbow chest. It is a prize, one of the four or five best pieces to be offered. Yesterday at the preview here, dealers prowled around it, old predators who carried their age with arrogance. Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed...
...Withington calls, "Fair warning," holds his hands two feet apart, waits, checks his stalled losing bidder again, claps hands and calls out "You're a winner!" Sold, no surprise, to Kenneth Hammitt. The oxbow chest vanishes, and a pair of Hepplewhite tables takes its place. They are Early American, like most of what Withington sells...