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...fang- baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive moltings. The ceaseless, disturbed rattling of so many snakes together is like the sound of bacon frying in a hundred skillets...
...Book may at first prompt some head scratching, since it looks like a startling departure from the fiction that established Kennedy's reputation. As in his first four novels, the setting is Albany, but not the Prohibition dives and Depression-haunted back streets populated by the likes of Legs Diamond and drifting members of the Phelan family. This time out the year is 1849 and the narrative mode has changed from naturalistic to headlong melodramatic. In short order, an exotic singer and dancer named Magdalena Colon drowns while being ferried across the ice-clogged Hudson River en route from Albany...
...girl's best friend, diamonds are becoming more dear. De Beers Consolidated Mines, which controls 80% of the diamond market, said last week it will raise prices for rough gemstones by 13.5%. All told, the company's average prices have risen 52% since 1982, bringing the price of a one-carat flawless diamond to more than...
...diamond cartel has been able to impose the price increases largely because of intense demand from Japan, where the strong yen has made imported gems a bargain and young couples have developed a newfound fondness for diamond engagement rings. While many diamonds have become more expensive in the U.S., sales still sparkle aplenty. One reason: single professional women are increasingly buying their own gems -- in discreet sizes...
Beyond the whimsy, serious prices were paid for Warhol's elegant furniture and glistening jewels. During the art-deco sale, a dealer shelled out $418,000 for a pair of circa-1920 console tables designed by French Craftsman Pierre Legrain, a record for his work. Heart-shaped ruby-and-diamond earclips signed by Salvador Dali fetched $55,000. Sotheby's termed Warhol's collection of more than sixty 18th and 19th century chairs, tables, beds, mirrors, desks, sewing tables -- and even a doorway -- "the most important offering of American classical and Federal furniture to be sold at auction in many...