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...years ago ($350) and the brightly colored enamel coffee pots of the 1890s ($75) are so scarce that manufacturers are now busily and cheaply reproducing them. Fancy china Jim Beam bourbon bottles, cranked out in limited quantities in the 1950s and early '60s as gift items, now fetch as much as $500 each-empty...
...from a pot." In return, Picasso has given him about 50 paintings and sketches - including a powerful War and Peace pastel contrasting dancing nymphs with a hideous fire-belching monster. According to a Riviera dealer, the work, which Picasso gave in payment for a pair of trousers, would now fetch...
Winter-grown green peppers, grapes and watermelons from Lebanon now reach dinner tables in London almost as rapidly as in Beirut. They get to Covent Garden, where the melons fetch 50?, v. 8? in a Lebanese bazaar, by means of cargo planes and because of the sagacity of a 40-year-old Lebanese with some slick trading talents...
...began to push my chair out the back door--to little avail. Next he picked up my briefcase and said, "Come with me." As he was nearing the back of the room I called, "I'll sue you if you lose that." In despair he waddled off to fetch the Lieutenant...
Taylor's story, as in Sabrina Fair and The Pleasure of His Company, his two best known plays, consists of little beyond a set of circumstances; their resolution is eminently forgettable, but the circumstances are these: a rich American arrives in Rome to fetch his car-crashed father's body, and finds that his father was with a woman when he died, and that the woman's daughter is in Rome too, on the same errand. You can take it from there, but you don't really have to. A third character--a friendly bisexual Italian parasite--serves as catalyst...