Word: faberge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high prices limited to paintings. Earlier this year auctioneers gaveled record prices for a French snuffbox ($150,000), a Roman glass bowl ($1.9 million), an American weather vane ($25,000), a Louis XV marquetry cabinet ($1.8 million), a Fabergé hippopotamus cigarette lighter ($55,000), a book of photographs ($100,000), a 2nd century A.D Roman head ($94,000). Per auctionem ad astra...
...must verify the claims made in any commercial before it appears, hiring reliable independent analysts to study them if the star has no expertise in the subject. Following those rules might be easy enough for Farrah Fawcett-Majors; any independent analyst would confirm that she looks ravishing wearing Fabergé cosmetics. But can O.J. Simpson really be sure that Hertz makes rental cars available as quickly as he says in those airports he hurdles through...
...scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed the biggest advertising contract ever given to a woman: $1 million from Fabergé to promote a new, unnamed scent. Said Margaux simply: "It's the best, you guys...
...Hemingways were at first cautious about Errol. But since that Christmas visit, Errol has been in close touch with Jack. Together with Margaux's agent Peggy Nestor, they set up the Fabergé deal, which runs until 1980 and may yield Margaux more than a million if she promotes other products for Fabergé as well...
...Fabergé's Brut Productions subsidiary kicked off its first film, A Touch of Class, after Grant, 69, declared that if he were 20 years younger, he would have liked to play the lead himself. The $2,000,000 light comedy grossed $3.5 million in its first four weeks. Brut, named after a Fabergé men's fragrance, has completed three other films and put four more into production; it aims eventually to turn out six a year. Grant, who took a glider ride at a Sun Valley film festival last week to plug the movies, insists that...