Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Prints - especially in signed, limited editions - were one answer to the poor man's status search. Signed color lithographs by Dubuffet and Braque sold for $45 and $75 at the University of Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color...
For those who wanted to drop cigarettes as well as names, the Frank Perls Gallery in Beverly Hills was selling a $30 Picasso ceramic ashtray. A somewhat older artifact - an Egyptian cosmetic palette from 3000 B.C. - was available for $280 at Manhattan's Komor Gallery. And the nearby Judith...
Of course, not everyone needs a fertility figure, and some galleries are wary of the Christmas trade. Says Beverly Hills' Frank Perls: "Giving pictures is worse than giving ties; unless a gallery owner wants many happy returns, he shouldn't be eager for Christmas sales."
In an outpouring of prognostication, economists across the U.S. last week were in remarkable agreement about where the U.S. economy is going in 1961. Their consensus: The recession will last into the first half of 1961 but will get no worse, will give way to an upturn in 1961'...
More Phrases. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Government and private economists agreed that the recession (the Government economists preferred to call it a downturn) is the mildest since World War II, has been going on for six months, and stems in large part from the economy'...