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...since the first hammer dropped to the highest bidder have sales of valuables commanded such audiences, such publicity, such prices. While anything that is relatively rare is sure to fetch a pretty penny at auction these days, things of beauty and lasting worth-"objects of virtue" to the trade-are going for sums that would boggle the I of Claudius. Ars gratia auctionis. Throughout the U.S. and the rest of the West, once listless salesrooms thrum with auctiophiliacs in search of a piece of the past; the top firms hold several simultaneous sales a day six days a week...
...famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with his cake...
...raise it closer to the levels of other producers: $23.50 or more. At the same time, several OPEC producers have announced plans to curtail production next year, while Iran, Dubai and other producers are continuing to divert oil to the spot market, where it can fetch at least...
...will not be easy to handle the stampede. While old cowhands were satisfied with plain cowhide, today's well-heeled dudes are demanding exotic skins: boa constrictors, sea turtles, swordfish, sharks, ostriches, anteaters and elephants. Custom-made models fetch up to $2,500 a pair, although well-made cowhides go for about...
Confined to the past tense and a prickly brogue, the trio conjure up a existence of bucketing around Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a van that doubles as home and transport. They fetch up in drafty halls before the blind, the crippled and the mad (unseen), some of whom never wanted to be cured but came to confirm their unyielding despair...