Word: collectors
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...most of the time it works. White cleverly knocks the values of a bureaucratic society in an imaginary letter to the tax collector, and the nosiness of certain do-gooders in a similar missive to the ASPCA. The morbid obsession with news is caricatured in the (very funny) story of a family--"marooned" on the island where they have always lived--that is killed when as Associated Press helicopter crashes from on high, the even more morbid obsession with games ridiculed in a lampoon of a future sport-mad-society where 197,000 would jam the Yale Bowl...
...Papanastassiou case is a dramatic example of a war being waged on libraries at a time when funds are short for all staffing, especially security. Stealing rare volumes is not new, but as prices have risen for all sorts of collector's items, the cash incentive has increased. Rare maps have disappeared from Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Two years ago, California State University at Long Beach found that 27 volumes of early editions of Captain James Cook's Voyages of Discovery, valued at $30,000, had vanished. At the University of California at Riverside...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...
This President is not a dedicated collector. He owns one small Grandma Moses painting, one Charles Russell bronze statue of a boxer (a gift) and several contemporary western artworks. His modest gun collection came from gifts. He has no yacht-just a 12-ft. canoe, the Truluv. His stereo rig would be spurned by the average twelve-year-old. The Corum $20-gold-piece watch he sports is a ten-year-old gift from friends. A couple of years ago, he and Nancy made a pact for a mutual Christmas gift, a power log splitter...
Once the bill becomes law in early October, Justice Minister Robert Badinter intends to turn over custody of one of the two surviving guillotines to a Paris museum, where, he predicts, "it is going to have the same attraction as the Mona Lisa." An avid collector of memorabilia involving the device, Badinter purchased the document signed by Louis XVI legalizing the guillotine for executions in 1791. The King died under the blade 18 months after approving its use. Reflects Badinter: "I don't think the machine gave him much satisfaction...