Word: richness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where Gideon cries at his own funeral. Still, Fosse is no fool, and at times he is his own best critic. All That Jazz is never more honest than when its hero confesses, "Sometimes I don't know when the bull ends and the truth begins." #151; Frank Rich...
Thus collecting valuable objects is no longer the preserve of the rich. At Sotheby's Los Angeles branch, which recorded a 1978-79 turnover of $13.7 million, 50% of all items on sale go for less than $300. Says Sotheby's Los Angeles president, Peter McCoy: "It makes sense for the average person to frequent our auctions. He'll be competing with the antique shop owner who'll sell a piece for more [probably 40% more] than he can buy it here." Caveat emptor...
English auction firms are particularly renowned for their well-connected staffers' ability to sniff out what they delicately call "aristocratic sales of necessity" (translation: the duke needs cash). Even the sophisticated rich often have unexpected treasures on their premises. Before sitting down to lunch at their country estate with the Earl and Countess of Verulam, Christie's Oriental ceramics director, Sir John Figgess, asked his host "if there was a cloakroom [bathroom] handy." There were two cloakrooms, allowed Verulam: "You take this one and I'll take that one." In the John that Sir John took...
...during his sermons is by gesturing, mimicking and acting out roles with the skill of a Marcel Marceau. But he finds it "appalling and tragic" that present-day idiom itself sometimes becomes the Gospel, as when "sensitivity training is mistaken for the work of the Holy Spirit." Davies' rich and mostly middle-aged congregation regard him as a star performer and a provocative mind. For his part, he likes to quote Karl Earth, who once described preaching as "an attempt to give God's answers to the questions people raise." Most of those answers are the same...
...rekindling the socialist torch he carried when young, but his wife Clare scalds him: "You're addicted to your own self-importance and like a real junkie you need bigger and bigger doses to keep going." Strickland also becomes embroiled in an affair with an enormously rich young woman and realizes, belatedly, that she thinks he will break up his home for her. He argues to himself that her impression never came from him: "He might have had daydreams of Clare's demise but he had never thought of leaving her, with or without the children...