Word: snuffbox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high prices limited to paintings. Earlier this year auctioneers gaveled record prices for a French snuffbox ($150,000), a Roman glass bowl ($1.9 million), an American weather vane ($25,000), a Louis XV marquetry cabinet ($1.8 million), a Fabergé hippopotamus cigarette lighter ($55,000), a book of photographs ($100,000), a 2nd century A.D Roman head ($94,000). Per auctionem ad astra...
...adjective great, debased in American museum parlance by the relentless way in which curators are apt to apply it to their latest snuffbox, does apply here. The reason is quite simple...
...dyed Zsa Zsa Gabor. Out of another giant cake popped Warhol Protege Gerry Williams outfitted in two black pasties and one black garter, her costume for an unusually explicit erotic dance. Then came more gifts for Jagger: a silver cross, a photo of a naked lady and a silver snuffbox for cocaine. Someone asked Bob Dylan whether the Stones phenomenon marked the end of rock 'n' roll or the beginning of something new. Resplendent in aviator glasses, checked shirt and a white fedora, Dylan answered with a grin: "It's the beginning of cosmic consciousness...