Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else too: that he was behind in the fight. Jab, jab, jab, hook hook, hook, he poured it on in the ninth and tenth. A hard right to the face rocked him, but still Cassius kept flailing throwing five punches to every one of Jones's piling up precious points. The huge crowd' knowing it was close, waited tensely for the verdict. Announcer Johnny Addie called for the mike. "Both judges score it five ... four ... one even-for Clay! Referee Joe Loscalzo scores...
There was, perhaps, cause for the President's casualness. For the U.S. has al ready given Laos quite a lot: $450 million since 1955, with precious little to show in return. Laos' Communist, neutralist and pro-Western factions, loosely stitched into a coalition government as a result of the Geneva agreement, are still at one another's throats. Communist troops from Viet Nam still prowl the country, in violation of the Geneva pact. Communist Pathet Lao troops still pillage and kill...
Fribourg kept on buying until every room in his mansion was a small museum in itself. He lived surrounded by rich inlay, intricately carved paneling, rare porcelains, precious furniture. He could point to a table and say. "That belonged to Marie Antoinette." A magnificent desk with inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare...
...there are two contrasting stories. Monsieur Georges tells of Wildenstein, the art dealer, who regards as more precious than anything he buys and sells the illuminated miniatures of the Renaissance that he collects. Two pages of color provide a sampling. The Baroness is about Hilla Rebay, a 72-year-old grande dame who until this year had never sold a painting, but has been collecting substantial tax benefits from the high price tags ($169,000) put on eight of her paintings when she gave them to schools...
When the noted international art dealer Georges Wildenstein was 14 years old, his father. Nathan, gave him two small works of art that were to become more precious to him than all the masterpieces that he later bought and sold. The gifts were illuminated miniatures that had originally been pages in a late 15th century manuscript, and they were the start of what is today the world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...