Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With more and more people clamoring for an ever-dwindling number of blue-chip pictures, the art market still soared. Sotheby's, the London auction house, last week registered a new high for a Picasso by knocking down his pretty nude, entitled La Belle Hollandaise, to the Queensland Art Gallery of Brisbane, Australia for $154,000. Back in 1905, Picasso painted the picture on a trip to Holland, apparently gave it to a traveling companion in payment for his half of a hotel bill...
...Cliffe began modestly enough, as is always the case in such mammoth projects, but it wasn't long before she began to chip steadily away at the male world several hundred yards down Garden Street. The extent of the damage, however, did not become apparent until just after the war, when the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences became the Radcliffe faculty. Of course, cries of astonishment were heard all around, but it was too late; Harvard, oldest and proudest bastion of male education, had fallen...
...Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A coterie of non-blue-chip sophisticates examined by a market analyst who knows both their prices and their values...
Harvard Freshman Philip Alston Stone, 18, wrote this fictional portrait of a Southern demagogue last year when he was still in prep school (Hotchkiss). No male Sagan, Novelist Stone is a chip off the writing desk occupied by William Faulkner, his famed fellow townsman in Oxford, Miss. In his rhetoric, country humor and nightmare vision of social change and violence. Novelist Stone resembles Faulkner, much as a shrunken head resembles a life-sized...
...Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A coterie of non-blue-chip sophisticates examined by a market analyst who knows both their prices and their values...