Word: highland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victorian painting from both sides of the Atlantic has emerged triumphantly from post-Reginal depression. Long dismissed as sentimental kitsch, mighty canvases of noble beasts, Highland crags and soul-pierced virgins were selling for at most $1,000 in 1967; they go these days for up to $100,000. A sale of 19th century paintings at Christie's in Manhattan returned $1.9 million. "It was a lot of rubbish," snorted one Christie...
Fashion, in other words, is taken not to exist. But the unpleasant fact is that no reputation is immune to fashion. The art market is built on it. The French cattle painter Rosa Bonheur, a favorite of Victorian merchant princes, got ? 4,059 (then almost $20,000) for her Highland Raid in 1887; in 1952 it was resold for under ?200, or $560. Sir Edward Burne-Jones' Love and the Pilgrim, sold in 1898 for .?5,775 ($28,000), dropped to ?21 ($85) within less than 50 years. If artists who in their day were considered outstanding, whose work...
...State aid: about $250 million, representing various financial schemes now cooking between Chrysler and the seven states where it has major operations. For example, the state of Michigan plans to mortgage Chrysler's Highland Park headquarters for $150 million...
...Highland Park, Mich...
...down to lazy majesté, perhaps. Visiting a sheep farm in Argyll, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles volunteered to shear a sheep with electric clippers as he had been taught as a schoolboy in Australia. As far as the Highland sheep was concerned, the Prince of Wales' approach was definitely non-ewe. It lunged between his legs and left him looking, well, sheepish. Worse, said Charles: "I was really worried about those horns. That sheep nearly ruined the dynasty...