Word: chico
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Auctions are strange activities anyway. Sotheby's invented them in 1744 when a bookseller named Samuel Baker wanted to live better. Since then they have grown into wonderfully weird hybrids of culture and capitalism. In movies like North by Northwest and the Marx Brothers' The Cocoanuts, where Chico bids against himself, they are accurately portrayed as miniworlds of crookedness and anarchy. Brawlers compete in cool frenzies of acquisitiveness...
...DIED. CHICO SCIENCE, 30, Brazilian bandster noted for his novel "mangue-beat" fusion of rock, rap and Brazilian rhythms; in a car crash; near Recife...
...including my campaign in that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every turn. There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive. There was the premature release of his concession speech on Election Night. And, of course, there was the symbol of his campaign, the Chico--as in California, not Marx--pratfall. On the very same day that Dole landed on his back after crashing through a fence on-stage, he also cited Hideo Nomo's no-hitter for "the Brooklyn Dodgers." It could have been worse. Better to call them the Brooklyn Dodgers than what they...
BORN: June 12, 1930, Golden, Colo. EDUCATION: California State U at Fresno, B.A., 1964; Radford U, M.S., 1968; U of Arkansas, Ed.D., 1971 FAMILY: Wife, Beverly RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1951-71 OCCUPATION: Professor; educational consultant POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1525, Chico...
BORN: May 20, 1945, Sutter County EDUCATION: American River College, A.A., 1967; California State U, 1968-69 FAMILY: Wife, Pamela Sargent; eight children RELIGION: Mormon MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Rancher; small-businessman POLITICAL CAREER: California Assembly, 1981-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1500, Chico...