Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many years, few experts took the story seriously. Then, at a Providence, R.I., rummage sale two years ago, Dr. Jules Piccus, professor of Romance languages at the University of Massachusetts, paid a few cents for a tattered and yellowed scrapbook that once belonged to Wilberforce Eames, a turn-of-the-century American bibliographer. Piccus discovered that the old scrapbook contained a letter written by Netto in 1874. The Rio museum director included not only his translation of the Phoenician text but also a tracing of the original copy he had received from the plantation owner...
...fleet hoofs are believed to bear riders safely to the spirit world. The cat is held in reverence by the Bengalis of Calcutta because it is the bahana, or mount, of Shashti, the Bengalese goddess of fecundity. Brightly colored Kalighat paintings of cats were made by street painters for sale to pilgrims to Calcutta's Temple of Kali. One of the most impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows the hero Krishna trying to deceive one of his admirers by assuming the head of a peacock, the body of a tiger, the hump of a camel...
...million involved, Ling will borrow $100 million from a syndicate of U.S., Canadian and European financial institutions with Wall Street's Lehman Bros, and Goldman, Sachs acting as bankers. Another $200 million is on hand as ready cash, including $60 million from a public sale of 600,000 shares of LTV stock last fall. LTV will raise the rest of the necessary money by selling off its interest in two insurance companies, Stonewall...
...millions and marry Franz. "My dining room, my earrings, my silver, my Franz," she muses. Martha, in fact, is so greedy that she aborts the murder plot at the last moment because her husband remarks that he is about to fatten his estate with $100,000 from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more subtly conceived, often with the impish intention of trapping overanxious symbol hunters...
...various unexpected materials of which this show is constructed seem to form an uncanny but logical whole, they often do so by contrast. If their contact is familiar, it is also often acrimonious. In fact, the heart of the dramatic technique of White Sale is irony extended and complex enough to avoid the schematization which cripples adventures into ironic dramatic montage. White Sale is in no sense didactic, and the ironies which arise out of the juxtapositions of its sequences have nothing to do with simple undercutting. For White Sale, irony becomes an instrument of investigation, not a tool...