Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bidding starts high and goes higher -roughly double last year's prices. Explanations vary. "We're totally greed motivated," jokes a restaurant owner from Seattle. "The only reason I'm paying $40,000 for a paneled room is because it wil help raise my take from $1 million to $2 million." Says Bob Snow, owner of the Rosie O'Grady entertainment-cum-preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know...
...bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room for the price of these pieces. You can't get this stuff any more...
Which is not to say, not at all, that John Wilson is trying to fool anybody. If a paneled room with baronial fireplace happens to be from London's Barclays Bank, he says so, and an Oklahoma City developer is pleased indeed to buy it for $32,500. But at a preview Wilson has also eagerly explained that a particular "pub" was actually taken from a church and rearranged. "We embellish, combine, try to keep the period," he says...
Eight days later he took a room at a boarding house five blocks from the Chi Omega sorority in Tallahassee. Early one morning, according to the state, he bludgeoned the four women, killing Lisa Levy, 20, and Margaret Bowman, 21. Then, police say, he walked six blocks to a duplex and attacked a fifth young woman, who survived...
...reading, a benefit for the recently-formed Support Group for Women's Safety, was the second in a series which began Friday night with an evening of black women's poetry at the Solomon Carter Fuller Center in the South End. The first reading, which also drew a standing-room-only crowd, featured the poetry of Lorde and local poets, Fahamisha Shariat Brown, Barbara Smith, Kate Rushin, and Dianna Christmas. Both evenings were supported by a number of community organizations concerned with making Boston safe for all women, including the Black Star Theatre, a Radcliffe-Harvard organization, which procured...