Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who interviewed the owners and patrons of Manhattan's top auction houses, shares Demarest's taste for fine art. "Chinese lacquer chests interest me, and so do impressionist paintings. I wouldn't mind getting a Renoir for Christmas. It can be a very small...
...endorsements of four of the five major New York City Democratic leaders and the mayors of the state's major cities. He also has the assistance of Governor Hugh Carey's organization in raising funds. Although Kennedy picked up half a million dollars at a Manhattan fund raiser, his speech was so lackluster that many of his supporters were disappointed...
Before winding up her whirlwind tour at a black-tie dinner given by Banker David Rockefeller, Thatcher gave an address before 2,000 luncheon guests at the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan. Speaking with a sense of theater that many a politician might envy, she warned of Soviet expansionism, reaffirmed the values of old-fashioned liberal democracy and insisted that "resolve" was perhaps the most important quality needed in a leader as the world heads into the 1980s, which she dubbed the "dangerous decade." Said she: "Let us go down in history as the generation which not only understood what...
...huge painting of scarlet lips suspended over a landscape, the work of American-born Dadaist and Photographer Man Ray, sold Nov. 5 at Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan for $750,000. It was by far the highest price ever paid at auction for a surrealist work...
...Earlier this month in Manhattan, the highest amount ever brought by a poster at auction -$26,000-went for Toulouse-Lautrec's color lithograph of Parisian Cabaret Singer Aristide Bruant...