Word: mountained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once again, Sotheby's and Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen to the whole room applaud...
...living room of Rubin's house in Los Angeles. "We recorded more than 70 songs in nine months, maybe closer to 100," says Cash. "Just everything I knew. I got into areas of music that ((Rubin)) wasn't familiar with, like country gospel, black gospel, country blues, Appalachian mountain music." In the end, just 13 of the songs were selected for the finished album...
That is, if you want star outfielder Ron Gant with a broken leg due to reckless mountain biking. Anyway, his injury happened just after he signed a unguaranteed contract with Atlanta. So the Cost-conscious Braves (owned by Ted Turner) cut him from the roster...
...spokesman for Nirvana's Gold Mountain Management portrayed the coma as a close-call, a near miss form joining the deceased pantheon of rock idols, but "definitely not a suicide attempt--it was strictly accidental." So Cobain almost became an "accident"--just like his rock and roll predecessors...
...recent flight from northern Russia to Moscow, one curious passenger discovered a party in progress at the back of the plane. Vodka and sandwiches were being shared by most of the crew, including the copilot who, less than an hour from landing, had passed out drunk on a mountain of baggage...