Word: grabbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christie's, auction houses to the kind of people who can afford $200 sips, think New Year's Eve 1999 is probably about as likely an occasion as will ever come along. So this week they're uncorking two of the biggest wine auctions in history. The headline grabber is the Sotheby's auction, which features more than $10 million worth of wine, all from the cellar of a single European collector. "We can't reveal his identity," says Sotheby's Michael Davis. "Let's just say he's a great connoisseur of wine, life...
...Land grabber, neighborhood despoiler, wheeler-dealer--those are the kinds of labels that stick to an urban real estate developer. Concerned environmentalist would not be on the list. But Douglas Durst is a developer with a green streak. And if he's not ready to be lionized by the Sierra Club, you could at least call him the greenest of New York City's megadevelopers...
...said: 'unto his eldest servant of his house... Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear...'" In the future when Hollywood makes a biblical or Roman epic, it might include a scene of a man testifying in the authentic manner...a reel grabber. TOM GILL North Beach...
...Courtney was little?" Absolutely not. Without any reference to my own early years of experimenting with electricity, I insisted that she not stick her curious fingers into electric sockets. Don't grab Johnny's sand bucket, I would tell her, although I'm sure I was a major bucket grabber. Don't eat with your fingers, I instructed. Well, I still do that...
There was nothing in this race for the House quite like Cubin's 1994 campaign headline grabber--distributing penis-shaped cookies to her colleagues in the Wyoming statehouse--but now that she is a member of Congress, Cubin has a record to run on. She supported the line-item veto and term limits, and with her post on the Resources Committee is in a position to protect the state's national parks...