Word: fetchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world void of moral order. Kabbelski's soul-destroying deals are, moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks up, but he and some of his clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings of a comparably tumultuous future. Although they appear to be part of the vast middle-class world in their adopted country, there is an untouchable inwardness in their spirits, and eventually they retreat into armed-survivalist...
...women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January 14 (1817). Dinner, with trivial conversation on the superiority of stout over thin women . . . January 15. I fetch the Imperial Almanac. The Emperor looks up the ages of his brothers. 'Josephine faked her age.' (He) looks at the names of the ladies of his court. He is moved. 'Ah! it was a fine empire. I had 83 million human beings under my government -- more than half the population...
...famed Medoc but from a region to the east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle for the acclaimed 1982 vintage, making it perhaps the most expensive wine for that year on the market. Older Petrus vintages occasionally fetch more than $1,000 a bottle at auction...
...lyre has rarely been seen in public. That obscurity is now a thing of the past for . the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, a 54-in. by 78-in. painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when it is auctioned on April 11. But the Spanish government wants it back pronto...
...last June, he learned that Publisher Malcolm Forbes paid $1.76 million for a Faberge with a crowing rooster inside. The purchase gave Forbes eleven Imperial Faberges, making his the largest collection in the world--one ahead of the Armoury Museum in the Kremlin. Aryeh, hoping that his egg could fetch an equally royal bid, decided to put it on the block at Christie's in Manhattan...