Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over $4,000,000; last week a Renoir, purchased for $16.80 a century ago, fetched $1,159,200 at a London auction. The list could be prolonged almost indefinitely, and will be: before the '70s are out, the first $10 million painting will probably have gone under the hammer. It does not take a very puritanical conscience to deduce that this involves a grotesque inversion of values, a crisis in the function that past art can play in present culture...
This afternoon's events will generally be confined to trials. However, finals will take place in the javelin, hammer and six-mile...
...Harvard's Richie Szaro, who came in second in the Heptagonals at Franklin Field two weeks ago, will be throwing the javelin. Ed Nosal will hurl the hammer and Marshall Jones will run the six-mile...
...ritual air of sanctioned duplicity at times surrounds auctions where the stakes loom high. Ostensibly, two big art dealers bid against each other until the hammer falls. In all probability, each represents a major museum or collector who has secretly commissioned the dealer to bid for them. The theory is that if the true bidders were known the price would skyrocket. When the game is played out, the art world is left to guess who actually bought the piece...
...walked into the elevator calmly reading some political brochure or other and ran into a guy about twice my size in a green tracksuit calmly carrying a hammer for a hammer throw. Somehow reading seems to go better with elevators than the hammer throw. But that's probably just a fetish...