Word: rig
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...death of Little Nell without laughing." Much the same is true of the latest story to convulse the art world: the travails of the world's two biggest art-auction businesses, Sotheby's and Christie's, rivals that now stand accused by the U.S. Justice Department of colluding to rig the auction market by fixing their sales-commission rates. The art market, particularly in its auction form, has always been secretive, manipulative and repellently sanctimonious, preaching the "objectivity" of auction prices. Sotheby's and Christie's, dealers and collectors know, are all-powerful. "They are the auction market," says Howard...
...hopeless," you think. "I'll never get that dream job, hauling tomatoes in a big rig in California...
Which it was, but that public was bored well before it was disillusioned. That may be the most telling lesson of the '50s phenomenon. No one is going to rig the new crop of quiz shows; contestants already enjoy mostly laughable questions and plenty of outside, on-air help. The viewers will have to answer the only question that really matters: For how long...