Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concern with the purity of the images (i. e. dialectical compositions) than with their dialectical relation. Individual images of the bourgeoisie, for example, are never caricatured (ef. Eisenstein) in sequences of their normal activities that are perfectly harmless in hemelves: relaxing at the beach, golfing, socializing at a cattle auction. But Solanas makes these smiling (and sometimes even attractive) human beings hideous and hateful ("monstrosity masquerading as beauty") by placing them in the same construction with images of other human beings starving and diseased...
...equally strong interest in the less sacred aspects of American commerce takes Trillin to the Fifth Annual Paul Bunyan Snowmobile Derby in Brainerd, Minn., the auction stalls on Atlantic City's boardwalk, and a national U.S. Jaycee gathering in Phoenix, where the campaign for the presidency is only a little less elaborate than the Democratic and Republican conventions. (The successful candidate gets to spend a year living at the Jaycee's White House in Tulsa, and his wife is often referred to as the First Lady...
...bulk of the purse money, 300 million spectators in more than 26 countries will see the fight. A successful theatrical agent who cheerily admits that "I really don't know the first thing about boxing," Perenchio is not missing a trick; after the bout is over, he hopes to auction off the fighters shoes, trunks, robes and gloves "If a movie studio can auction off Judy Garland's red slippers," he says, "these things ought to be worth something. You've got to throw away the book on this fight. This one transcends boxing?it's a show business spectacular...
...established in London. "France . . . will regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word message was written had disappeared. Then, four days after De Gaulle's death, an unidentified Frenchman offered it to a Paris auction expert named Pierre de St. Cyr for $100,000, with the stipulation that the sale be secret and that it be made to a foreigner. Shocked at this unpatriotic profiteering, De St. Cyr informed Delon, who sent for a friend from Buenos Aires. Equipped with his foreign passport...
...currently selling close to 500 belts a week through East Coast boutiques and Manhattan's Bloomingdale's. Socialite Ethel Scull buckled one over a black-jersey jumpsuit, appeared at a black-tie party looking less bonny than Clyde; Model Carole Mallory wore hers to an art auction and was an instant succes fou-she got immediate attention from the security guards...