Word: duck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American folk art, however humble its origin, is soaring in value as well-crafted objects like pewter pots, duck decoys, quilts and scrimshaw (erotic examples in particular) become ever scarcer. Photographs are commanding fine arts prices; an original print of Ansel Adams' Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico sold last week for a record $22,000. "We can see the day when a single photograph will fetch $100,000," says Philippe Garner, a Sotheby's photographic expert. Almost any object from the once scorned 19th century now seems as precious as Suez Canal Co. stock was in its heyday. Twenty...
...brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo eventually became the richest of the brothers, working variously as a talent agent, an airplane parts manufacturer and a citrus grower. His marriages (one to the current Mrs. Frank Sinatra...
...Harvard football team watched its 6-2 halftime lead dissolve in the first five-and-a-half minutes of the third period, it became increasingly clear that Brown Stadium was more fit for a duck crossing than a gridiron on Saturday. As Brown coach John Anderson said after the game, "It was a quagmire before we even started...
Swearing to Marilyn that he will never again visit her. Potter heads back to Jessica's Halston bedroom and Zabar-stocked kitchen. A memorable camera shot pans their connubial bed as they make alex-comfort love while Candice chirps again--a disco duck on quaaludes. By now, the unhappy marriage of her voice and Marvin Hamlisch's music no longer amuses; it sickens--both us and Potter...
...West Coast still fascinates Field, and she may end up in Oregon after all. But right now Cambridge suits her, and she's content to play the duck out of water around her academic-oriented classmates...