Word: clark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawing had ever before sold for more than $1 million. No sooner had the gavel dropped than "the greatest picture ever painted," J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone, was put on the block at Sotheby's. That modest assessment came from the previous owner, the late Kenneth Clark of Civilisation fame. Others apparently agreed: the painting was sold to an anonymous individual for $10 million and change, $3 million more than for the previous record holder, also a Turner. Lord Clark's estate had offered the treasure to the National Gallery of Scotland for a mere $3 million...
...Hunter R. Clark...
...Inauguration Day, the pink of a Provence carnation. Her hero is her husband of 46 years, whom she refers to almost solely in terms of his exquisite clothes-felt hats as smooth as satin, overcoats that Garbo loved. Helena Rubinstein is remembered for the beauty of her buttonholes, Clark Gable for the best eyelashes she ever saw. And if the tall stories about kings and playboys often ravel, the shrewdness and impersonal good humor of the storyteller are intact. Cole Porter, of course, wrote a couplet about Vreeland: "Here's Diana/ Sittin' on the piana." And that...
...Shamie's a salesman he'll tell you that him-self." Said State Rep. Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58 (R-Hamilton). "He has a very open style he's an easy-to-communicate-with person. Richardson tends to be a little more distant than the average politician; he never tries to be the hail-fellow-well...
...Clark, a journeyman among movie genres (Murder by Decree, Tribute, Porky's, A Christmas Story), directs the script by Phil Alden Robinson and Stallone to its pre-arranged destination without many bumps or scenic side trips. Tim Thomerson wrings some sweetly comic juice from his role as Dolly's conniving ex; and Stallone, who as a singer seems to have taken charisma lessons from his songwriter brother Frank, is game and good-spirited in a role that plays too heavily on urban oafishness. Rhinestone, though, belongs to the lady. Parton is an irresistible screen presence, cute and cuddlesome...