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...increased selectivity, a healthy trimming of the market, and how first-rate things would continue to get first-rate prices. (That an exceptional painting could still make an exceptional price was in fact confirmed earlier this month at Sotheby's in London when a great Constable landscape, The Lock, 1824, was bought by Baron Thyssen for $21.1 million.) Michael Findlay, head of Christie's Impressionist and modern art sales, called the market a "roller coaster" -- inexactly, since roller coasters go up and down but always finish at the level where they started. The next big sales, in the spring...
Although he is only one-third through his six-year term, the question of Salinas' successor already pervades Mexican political life. Because the President is barred from re-election himself, his ability to impose his choice on the country is the foundation of the P.R.I.'s lock on power. But the very reforms he has set in motion may prevent Salinas from extending the 60-year- old political monopoly that put him in office...
...other couples treasure their tapes as a reminder of some of the most loving -- in all senses of the word -- moments of their lives. Nina and Fred keep their small video library under lock and key to protect it from prying eyes. But they are aware that someday their children may discover the revealing films. If that happens, says Nina, "we would be embarrassed, but we wouldn't be ashamed...
...Zeugma" is a literary device in which a single verb modifies two distinct objects that do not belong together--as, for example in the following passage from Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock...
Outside Harvard Hall, Joanne M. Nelson '93 said the University should provide more racks. Now, she said, she usually must lock her bike to fences or poles because there is no space elsewhere...