Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Which entitled them to the winner's share of the auction-money pool...
When the slave raiders come, Bay-ungumay, Solitude's mother-to-be, is chained and shipped off to the plantations on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. There, African animism and life cycles are replaced by the auction block and the permanent registry system: the list of slaves never changes, and the names of the dead are transferred to the living...
...enveloped in actressy vanity and a flighty inability to cope. Yet Gloria Foster displays little vanity and seems to possess such granitic strength as to have sold the estate and axed the first cherry tree herself. Lopakin, the son of a serf, who buys the Ranevskaya property at auction, is played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality of a steely, patient peasant finally coming into his own. Earle Hyman, on the other hand, succeeds as Madame Ra-nevskaya's billiards-obsessed brother Leonid. Hyman's portrayal of world-weary neurasthenia...
...point that the average miner is the chief victim of U.M.W. complacency and corruption. He flails Boyle and the staff of U.M.W. headquarters in Washington for fancy living and disregard of the rank and file. "The U.M.W. hierarchy owns 16 Cadillacs," he complains, "and we're gonna auction 'em off." If elected, Miller promises to cut the union president's salary from $50,000 a year to $35,000. "I'd like to go out to the coal fields and say to some miner: 'Here, old timer, here's a thousand bucks of your...
...shell-appreciation book." Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound. There is also profit in shell collecting. At a recent auction, something called a Golden Cowrie, often found in the Fijis, went for more than...