Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely pretended to have a buyer; in fact, not a single real offer was made. Why no takers? As Tajan put it, the painting has "an odor of sulfur" about it. Indeed, the 25-in. by 31-in. canvas has a long, troubled history. Supposedly painted by the penniless artist just...
make monkey-motion: (St. Vincent, Guyana) to make funny faces or perform antics...
...past two presidents of PBHA, Andrew J. Ehrlich '96-'97 and Vincent Pan '95-'96, each stayed at Harvard for an extra semester to run the organization because PBHA members wanted experienced leaders to handle the organization's conflicts with the administration over student autonomy...
...Republicans' electoral gains in the Senate and their continued control of the House of Representatives. Also, although I hate to encourage the sort of unfounded rumors and conjecture that have fueled scandals such as Whitewater, the White House Travel Office firings, the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and even Vincent W. Foster's suicide, perhaps Clinton is trying not to tread on any toes because he does have ethical skeletons in his closet. Washington gossip has suggested that Special Prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr has another round of indictments up his sleeve. And if Clinton's past ethical dilemmas...
...firm. That's just what is known within the independent counsel's office as the "Arkansas phase" of the investigation. In the "Washington phase," focusing on events that have occurred since the Clintons have occupied the White House, there are the death of former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, the discharge of the travel-office workers, the disappearance and reappearance of various documents under subpoena, the procurement of hundreds of FBI files, and the truthfulness of testimony about all these matters by everyone from the President and First Lady to friends and advisers like Susan Thomases and Bernard Nussbaum...