Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green cabbages, gigantic leeks, silvery winter melons, woodsy mushrooms, mounds of gnarled ginger roots, pomegranates and persimmons, displayed alongside skeins of noodles, fish swimming in vats of running water, and live geese and ducks, sitting sleepily in place with their feet tied together. Also live in crates and on sale as food are kittens, puppies and monkeys, as well as snakes writhing in shallow pools. (The Westerner need not fear that such animals will appear without notice on his plate. All are expensive and are prepared in specialty restaurants or at banquets...
...computers will be built around Microsoft's Windows, a mouse-driven control system similar to the easy-to-use operating system that has brought such success to the Apple Macintosh. Though the basic PS/2 is already being shipped and the higher-priced models will go on sale later this year, the new software will not be available before next year, a delay that gives breathing space to Apple, IBM's biggest competitor. Apple's computers already offer many of the features, including an advanced graphics capability, that will not be available on the PS/2 until 1988. In the hours following...
...million in 1984, a Mantegna for $10.4 million and a Van Gogh for $9.9 million in 1985, and a Rembrandt for $10.3 million and a Manet for $11 million in 1986. Nevertheless, this one brought in more than three times the previous record established in 1983 with the sale of the 12th century illuminated Gospels of Henry the Lion for $11.9 million...
...behind bars, to long queues of curiosity seekers at Christie's. Then the Ascension, or auction proper, in which Vincent's glorified body was raised to the empyrean in 4 minutes 30 seconds, a rate of climb of $147,700 per second. And third, the Eucharistic Feast. After the sale, Christie's brought out a savory cake in the form of Sunflowers, the frame made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds. It was cut up and eaten...
...days later in a lakefront tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none but a snob or a fantasist (not that we are short of either) could feel much nostalgia for Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi...