Word: vane
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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...
...doubt the integrity of her work or the delicacy of her imagination. She was a graceful colorist, seldom candied or sentimental, and never coarse. In those blue-gray distances of field and forest, punctuated by the silhouette of a horse (the creature's profile cut like a weather vane, as though by shears) or the bright red caesura of a barn, one sees the equivalent of perfect natural pitch in singers: an instinctive truth of tone, the mark of a born painter. At her best, she makes nearly every American "primitive" who has appeared since her death look postcardy...
...dishes to a copy of Auguste Rodin's Age of Bronze, a statue of a nude male that stands 41½ in. high and sells for $7,500. In scope, they embrace reproductions of such varied items as Picasso's Houses on the Hill ($650), a weather vane sculpture of a 19th century race horse ($975), an old Chinese temple jar ($1,000) and an 18th century Japanese wood carving of a sleeping cat ($125). Besides beauty and style, what these and 112 other art objects being offered in a slickly handsome new catalogue have in common...
...award for basic medical research was shared by Drs. K. Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson, both of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, and Pharmacologist John R. Vane of Britain's Wellcome Research Laboratories. The three men were honored for their pioneering work in identifying and isolating prostaglandins. First thought to be produced only by the prostate gland-hence the name-prostaglandins are in fact manufactured and found everywhere in the body. They are like hormones and appear to regulate a wide variety of basic life functions, from controlling the clotting of blood and secretion of gastric acid...
...would run off about once a week for an EKG at Roosevelt Hospital. "He just doesn't have the capacity to relax," says a former CBS colleague. Just being around him "can make you break out in little beads of perspiration," adds the otherwise cool ABC vice president Ed Vane...