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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time and again, Andy's kitsch -- "collectibles" was Sotheby's more tactful label -- fetched upscale prices. A Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog beach towel and other Muppet memorabilia went for $1,760. A Fred Flintstone quartz watch, still bearing its original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Garage Sale of the Century | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...count or recount -- including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. "Sick," Kazan pronounces, then adds, "People make fun of the male crisis at 45. I had that crisis all my life. I knew there was more to life than I was getting, and I didn't want to miss out on anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incaution on A Grand Scale ELIA KAZAN: A LIFE | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...that Roth works primarily with pinned specimens, he does not have to worry about the insects escaping. While he concedes that he does miss the behavioral studies, he adds that the studying cockroach taxonomy is very important, particularly because so few people are doing it. However, funding for taxonomic research is scarce, and the entire field stands in danger of becoming a science of the past, he says...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Roaches: Nuisance or Science? | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

Celimene's spacy cousin, Eliante (Natasha Shapiro) is more of a ham, Despite a dress that makes her look like Miss Havisham...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...miss Prascak's Le Mis(anthrope), if you're able...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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