Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers' classified sections, property for sale in West Berlin outran buyers' advertisements 8 to 1. Many advertisers played openly on apprehension. Asked one: "Who would like to move his business to Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...
...possessions, 135 of those drawings were on display at the National Gallery in Washington. Their creator was Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose own native Venice did not begin to rediscover him until more than a century after his death. The drawings are not the finished kind that Tiepolo did for sale, but they are perhaps more interesting. They are notes for paintings and frescoes, ideas jotted down as quickly as they welled up in Tiepolo's prodigiously restless mind...
...just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo in the car constructions of John Chamberlain. A painted Breakfast by Juan Gris plays parent to an assembled breakfast by Daniel Spoerri...
...Oakridge Road, Verona, N.J., a sign reads, "House For Sale to College Graduate--Acceptable College Only." Added underneath is "Harvard is not Acceptable...
...James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family. The longest-running straight play on Broadway last season, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, All the Way closed broke: after 334 performances, its net loss was $95,000, movie sale included...